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Springtown, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72734. It stands on East Flint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gentry quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Springtown within Benton County

On record in Springtown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Springtown fell from 87 to 83 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201087
202083-4 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Springtown between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,363 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined994 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionHONEY CREEK
15 August 2012Natural25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Springtown: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Zn/PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springtown in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Flash FloodSpringtown-A one-mile section of Highway 12 was flooded and closed in both directions.
May 2013Flash FloodSpringtown-Portions of Highway 264 were reported flooded.
April 2013Flash FloodSpringtown-Pleasant Valley Road was flooded and was impassable.

Every storm recorded in Benton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cross Roads (historical)2.1 miles16
Fairmount2.6 miles17
Crown (historical)2.8 miles16
Gentry3.3 miles16
Felker (historical)3.3 miles17
Trammell (historical)3.4 miles16
Highfill3.5 miles17
Flint (historical)3.5 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SpringtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2488463The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78441. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.