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West Crossett, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Egypt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71635. The Survey maps it on the Crossett North quadrangle. 1,144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

West Crossett within Ashley County

Population over time

2 figures

West Crossett fell from 1,256 to 1,144 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
20101,256
20201,144-112 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of West Crossett between 1994 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOFFICE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Crossett: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
St.Francis S&G Co. Crossett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Crossett in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
October 2009Flash FloodWest Crossett$200,000More heavy rainfall on the 13th caused significant flooding across a large portion of Ashley County. Numerous roads were under water and closed. Crops across the region were damaged as well from all of the rain and saturated conditions.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees. It was estimated that between 50 and 100 trees were taken down by the strong winds. Most of the trees were located on property owned by a forest company.
April 2003Tornado (F1)West Crossett$30,000This tornado moved into Ashley county from Bradley county. The tornado was just W of Lake Georgia Pacific and only snapped and downed numerous trees.
March 2016Flash FloodWest Crossett$25,000Section of Marias Saline Road washed away.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett$5,000A couple of trees were blown down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett$4,000Several trees were blown down and resulted in power outages near West Crossett.
March 2025HailWest Crossett$3,000Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell in and around Crossett.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett$3,000A tree was blown down on Maris Saline Rd.
February 2009HailWest Crossett$3,000A second supercell thunderstorm also moved across all of central Ashley County and produced a swath of quarter to ping pong ball sized hail.
February 2009HailWest Crossett$2,000A 3rd supercell thunderstorm moved across a large portion of Ashley County and produced a swath of quarter to half dollar sized hail.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett$1,000A pine tree snapped and other large limbs were blown down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett-Emergency management reported a transformer that was damaged due to winds. This caused power outages for a few hours for parts of W Crossett.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett-A tree was blown down on Stevens Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett-A few trees were blown down west of Crossett.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindWest Crossett-A couple of trees were blown down in the area.
May 2010HailWest Crossett-no account filed
February 2008HailWest Crossett-no account filed
April 2006HailWest Crossett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
Cremer1.7 miles11
Oakhurst Addition1.9 miles11
Crossett1.9 miles10
Forest Park Addition2.7 miles11
Brushy (historical)3.1 miles10
South Crossett3.2 miles11
North Crossett3.3 miles10
Whitlow Junction4.3 miles10

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 West CrossettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2508261The 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 58849. 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.