Sweet Home, Arkansas
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Big Rock Township. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Home quadrangle. 712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.
On record in Sweet Home
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
Hanger Cotton Ginlisted 1976
Population over time
3 figuresSweet Home fell from 1,070 to 712 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 | 1,070 | |
| 2010 | 849 | -221 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 712 | -137 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 23 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.
- 1891 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Camp Pike quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1935 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1945 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
60 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Home between 1997 and 2019, burning about 725 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 19 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 60 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Home: 45 unknowns, 10 producers, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Niobium (Columbium). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fourche Bayou Deposit | Niobium (Columbium) | Occurrence | ||
| Little Rock Plant | Aluminum, Clay | Unknown | ||
| Unknown S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Elkins Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Hoffman | Clay | Producer | ||
| Little Rock Industrial Minerals Pnt | Clay | Producer | ||
| Arch Street Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Arch Street Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Crystal Hl | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Granite Mountain Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet Home in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Sweet Home | $10,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweet Home | $5,000 | Several large trees were blown down. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Sweet Home | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Sweet Home | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillam Park | 1.6 miles | 26 | |
| College Station | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Fourche (historical) | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Woodyardville | 2.0 miles | 26 | |
| Fairview | 2.1 miles | 26 | |
| Picron | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Biddle | 2.5 miles | 26 | |
| Higgins | 2.5 miles | 23 |
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 Sweet Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1899121 | 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 58722. 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.














