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Vandervoort, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71972. The Survey maps it on the Vandervoort quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Vandervoort within Polk County

Population over time

3 figures

Vandervoort fell from 120 to 115 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
2000120
201087-33 (-28%)
2020115+28 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Vandervoort between 1997 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2002Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresOuachita National ForestCOUNTY ROAD 32
8 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vandervoort: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
HablitzelManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandervoort in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVandervoort$20,000Trees were blown down, blocking county roads in the area around Vandervoort.
June 2019HailVandervoort-An image on social media shows extremely large hail between 4 and 5 inches occurred near Vandervoort.
June 2019HailVandervoort-The Polk County sheriff department reported significant windshield damage in Vandervoort.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindVandervoort-Several trees were downed.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindVandervoort-Thunderstorm winds damaged several homes and farm buildings.
June 2019HailVandervoort-no account filed
March 2008HailVandervoort-no account filed
March 2008HailVandervoort-no account filed
April 1999HailVandervoort-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindVandervoort-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Vandervoort-no account filed
April 1995HailVandervoort-no account filed
April 1993HailVandervoort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Hatton1.6 miles16
Bethel Chapel2.1 miles16
Roff (historical)4.3 miles16
Cove4.4 miles16
McCauley4.5 miles16
Old Cove4.6 miles16
Bog Springs4.9 miles16
Buffalo (historical)5.2 miles16

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 VandervoortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2208003The 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 78650. 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.