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.
Population over time
3 figuresWilmot 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 378 | |
| 2010 | 550 | |
| 2020 | 416 | -134 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1935 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 July 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Overflow National Wildlife Refuge | OVERFLOW WHEAT LIGHTNING |
| 13 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 December 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 November 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 November 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 54 acres | Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge | OVO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2001 | Tornado (F3) | Wilmot | 3 killed, 11 hurt, $2,000,000 | A 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $130,000 | A 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 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Wilmot | $35,000 | This 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $25,000 | Several signs, power lines, and trees were blown down across eastern Ashley county. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $15,000 | Three trees were blown down and some cars were blown off the road. Power outages were also reported in Wilmot and Portland. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $15,000 | A few power lines were blown down. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $8,000 | A few trees were blown down in Wilmot. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $7,000 | A few trees were blown down along with many large limbs. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $6,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $1,000 | A tree was blown down just east of Wilmot. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $1,000 | There was a report of a blown down tree in Wilmot. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down in town, on Main Street, with a couple others down just north of town. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | A few trees were blown down across area roads. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimball | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Millers Chapel | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Parkdale | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Matoka (historical) | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Sunshine | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Berlin | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Jackson (historical) | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Portland | 12.9 miles | 16 |
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 Wilmot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79485 | 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 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.






