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.
Population over time
3 figuresSulphur 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 421 | |
| 2010 | 456 | +35 (+8%) |
| 2020 | 609 | +153 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Sulphur Rock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Sulphur Rock quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Sulphur Rock quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| River Sand & Gravel Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk Gravel Pits 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | $35,000 | One 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | $10,000 | A tree was down on a house in Sulphur Rock. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | A tree was down on a home in Sulphur Rock. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Rock | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Carmel | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Magness | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Gainsboro | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Moorefield | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Mount Zion | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Newark | 4.6 miles | 14 |
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 Rock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2335425 | The 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.







