West Point, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72178. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.
On record in West Point
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
Otha Walker Homesteadlisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresWest Point grew from 164 to 170 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 | 164 | |
| 2010 | 185 | +21 (+13%) |
| 2020 | 170 | -15 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 1997 and 2020, burning about 373 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | WHI17454828 |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Point: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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.
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2382209 | 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 58858. 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.







