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Winthrop, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 71866. The Survey maps it on the Winthrop quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Winthrop within Little River County

Population over time

3 figures

Winthrop fell from 186 to 116 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.

YearPeople Change
2000186
2010192+6 (+3%)
2020116-76 (-40%)

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

70 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Winthrop between 1997 and 2019, burning about 629 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresPond Creek National Wildlife RefugePOND CREEK WF #1
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Little River County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Winthrop: 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
UnkLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
UnkLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Little River County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winthrop in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWinthrop$50,000Numerous trees downed. Structural damage to a paper mill. 2 metal buildings were also destroyed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWinthrop-Tree downed in Winthrop.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWinthrop-Reports of numerous trees downed throughout Little River County.
June 2023HailWinthrop-Baseball size hail reported in the Winthrop community.
March 2021HailWinthrop-Golfball size hail fell in and just northeast of the Winthrop community.
December 2021HailWinthrop-Quarter size and slightly larger hail was reported near and south of Winthrop.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWinthrop-Large limbs were blown down just east of the Winthrop community.
April 2016HailWinthrop-A photo was posted to the KSLA-TV Facebook page of hail slightly larger than golfballs that fell in Winthrop.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindWinthrop-Winds downed a few trees in the Winthrop area near Hwy. 234.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWinthrop-A few trees downed in town.
April 2011HailWinthrop-no account filed
February 2008HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2008Funnel CloudWinthrop-no account filed
April 2008HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2006HailWinthrop-no account filed
November 2005HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2004HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2004HailWinthrop-no account filed
August 2003HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2003HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2002HailWinthrop-no account filed
May 2001HailWinthrop-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodWinthrop-no account filed
April 1993HailWinthrop-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Little River 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
Cross Roads1.8 miles11
Oak Grove3.2 miles11
Lippton (historical)4.0 miles10
Jewell4.0 miles11
Morris Ferry (historical)4.2 miles11
Leidygate (historical)4.6 miles10
Billingsleys Corner6.0 miles11
Alleene6.6 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 WinthropAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79272The 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 78791. 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.