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Wilmot, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Wilmot Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71676. The Survey maps it on the Wilmot quadrangle. 416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Wilmot within Ashley County

Population over time

3 figures

Wilmot grew from 378 to 416 between 1900 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
1900378
2010550
2020416-134 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wilmot between 1992 and 2016, burning about 84 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2013Natural1.0 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeOVERFLOW WHEAT LIGHTNING
13 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 December 2005Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 November 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 November 1992Arson/incendiarism54 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOVO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmot in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 3 deaths and 11 injuries. 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
November 2001Tornado (F3)Wilmot3 killed, 11 hurt, $2,000,000A supercell thunderstorm produced a tornado that moved out of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana into Ashley County, Arkansas, 6 miles southwest of Wilmot. The tornado then moved to the south end of Lake Enterprise, just west of Wilmot. The tornado strengthened and widened as it approached the Wilmot area and was rated as an F3 with a maximum width of one half mile. The tornado destroyed 14 mobile homes and houses and caused extensive damage to five other homes in the vicinity of Wilmot. A church on the north side of Wilmot was completely destroyed. Additionally, a tractor shed housing farm equipment was destroyed, and the equipment inside was also destroyed. As the tornado tracked northeast toward Parkdale, it damaged or destroyed several cotton pickers, trailers, and tractors. The tornado lifted 2.5 miles east-northeast of Parkdale. The total estimated damage of the tornado was $2.0 million. The tornado caused the deaths of three people in the vicinity of Wilmot. Additionally, a total of eleven people sustained injuries.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWilmot$130,000A swath of damaging winds occurred across eastern Ashley County near Ashley County Road 38. Power poles were snapped, roof damage occurred to a church, the steeple of the church was toppled. There was also damage to a portable building near the church where it was slid off of its bricks.
January 1999Tornado (F1)Wilmot$35,000This tornado was a continuation of a tornado that touched down in Morehouse Parish Louisiana and continued into Chicot County Arkansas. There was minor damage to mainly trees and power lines.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmot$25,000Several signs, power lines, and trees were blown down across eastern Ashley county.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindWilmot$15,000Three trees were blown down and some cars were blown off the road. Power outages were also reported in Wilmot and Portland.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWilmot$15,000A few power lines were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWilmot$8,000A few trees were blown down in Wilmot.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindWilmot$7,000A few trees were blown down along with many large limbs.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWilmot$6,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindWilmot$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindWilmot$2,000A few trees were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWilmot$1,000A tree was blown down just east of Wilmot.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindWilmot$1,000There was a report of a blown down tree in Wilmot.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWilmot$1,000A few trees were blown down in town, on Main Street, with a couple others down just north of town.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWilmot-A few trees were blown down across area roads.
March 2013HailWilmot-no account filed
February 2012HailWilmot-no account filed
April 2009HailWilmot-no account filed
February 2007HailWilmot-no account filed
April 1996HailWilmot-no account filed
January 1995HailWilmot-no account filed
January 1995HailWilmot-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
Kimball2.9 miles17
Millers Chapel4.6 miles12
Parkdale4.7 miles17
Matoka (historical)7.5 miles16
Sunshine9.2 miles16
Berlin10.2 miles11
Jackson (historical)11.0 miles12
Portland12.9 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 WilmotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79485The 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 56423. 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.