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Sulphur Rock, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72579. It stands on Gibbs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Rock quadrangle. 609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Sulphur Rock within Independence County

Population over time

3 figures

Sulphur Rock grew from 421 to 609 between 2000 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
2000421
2010456+35 (+8%)
2020609+153 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Rock between 1997 and 2017, burning about 390 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 June 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Rock: 8 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese. 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
UnkManganeseUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
River Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur Rock in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock$35,000One house had support columns on the front porch moved out of place, a grill and chairs blown off the porch, and shingles blown off the roof. On the same property, part of the barn roof was blown off. Another house had part of its roof peeled up and a metal carport blown into the back yard.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock$10,000A tree was down on a house in Sulphur Rock.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-Several trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-A tree was down on a home in Sulphur Rock.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-Several trees were blown down.
March 2011HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
June 2011HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
April 2009HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
August 2003HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
March 2003HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
February 2001HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
July 2001HailSulphur Rock-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindSulphur Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Rutherford2.8 miles17
Mount Carmel3.2 miles14
Magness3.5 miles14
Gainsboro3.5 miles20
Moorefield3.9 miles20
Mount Zion4.3 miles14
Pleasant Hill4.6 miles11
Newark4.6 miles14

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 Sulphur RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2335425The 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 58709. 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.