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Weldon, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Breckenridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. The Survey maps it on the Tupelo quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Weldon within Jackson County

On record in Weldon

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

Weldon fell from 75 to 57 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
201075
202057-18 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Weldon between 1992 and 2015, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
10 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexBLACK
7 June 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 April 1996Arson/incendiarism14 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexALLEN
2 March 1993Smokingunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexHWY 145
12 March 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 March 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weldon in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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 2010Tornado (EF3)Weldon$1,000,000This was the fifth of five tornadoes spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm. This tornado passed through the south side of Shoffner. A church was destroyed and a power substation was damaged. A hangar at a flying service was destroyed and an aircraft used for agricultural application was damaged. A mobile home was overturned and destroyed. Significant roof damage occurred to homes. A grain elevator was badly damaged. An irrigation pivot was overturned. Outbuildings were destroyed or damaged. Trees were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWeldon$100,000An irrigation pivot was overturned.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWeldon$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a few houses and several trees were also knocked down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWeldon$15,000Trees and large limbs were blown down.
July 2010Flash FloodWeldon$2,000Minor flooding occurred.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWeldon-Several trees and power lines were blown down in the town of Weldon resulting in a lack of power to the entire town.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWeldon-Large limbs were blown down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWeldon-Large limbs were down.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Weldon-A weak tornado touched down in southern Jackson County just north of Weldon. Seven large wooden structures which hold up power lines were blown down. Nearby, nine power poles were snapped off and some trees were knocked down. A farm shed had its metal roof blown off. The tornado quickly dissipated about 1.5 miles northeast of Weldon.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Weldon-A weak tornado moved from White County into Jackson County about 3.5 miles west of Weldon. The tornado remained on the ground for about 14 miles before dissipating about 1 mile northeast of Amagon. Most of the damage consisted of a number of downed trees, large limbs being twisted off trees and tops being blown out of trees. Some residences sustained roof damage, mainly from falling trees and shingles torn off.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindWeldon-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindWeldon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Shoffner1.8 miles10
Tupelo3.6 miles10
Blackville4.4 miles10
Spriggs Mill4.7 miles11
Auvergne4.7 miles11
Bengel4.9 miles11
Horseshoe5.2 miles13
Ingleside5.6 miles11

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 WeldonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2495888The 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 58847. 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.

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.