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Woodson, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Big Rock Township. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodson quadrangle. 346 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Woodson within Pulaski County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodson fell from 403 to 346 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
2010403
2020346-57 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

111 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Woodson between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,445 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodson: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Sweet Home ClayAluminumUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodson in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Woodson1 killed, $3,500,000This tornado exited Saline County, southeast of East End, and moved into Pulaski County, southwest of Woodson. Altogether, 75 homes (houses and mobile homes) were damaged or destroyed. This number included 21 homes destroyed, 16 with major damage, 26 with minor damage, and the remainder with only slight damage. Most of these homes were in the Hensley and Woodson areas. One woman was killed when her mobile home was destroyed on West Hensley Rd. Two large, steel, electrical transmission towers were knocked down. The tornado exited Pulaski County, east of Wrightsville, and moved into Lonoke County, just northwest of Keo.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Woodson$175,000This tornado exited Saline County northeast of Lakeside and entered Pulaski County west-northwest of Woodson. In Pulaski County, many trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling on a house. Shingles were blown off a number of houses.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodson-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down along Woodson Lateral Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A tree was down on Arkansas Highway 365.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A large tree was reported down on Arkansas Highway 365.
October 2004Tornado (F2)Woodson-The tornado moved out of Saline County and entered Pulaski County about 1.9 miles west of Woodson. The tornado tracked to the north of Woodson and continued to the northeast before lifting about 8.3 miles east of Wrightsville. Most of the structural damage occurred in the Woodson area where several houses and mobile homes sustained damage. Numerous trees and power lines were downed along the path of the tornado.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWoodson-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
March 2015HailWoodson-no account filed
September 2013Heavy RainWoodson-no account filed
February 1998HailWoodson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Hensley1.7 miles18
Rottaken3.0 miles18
Wrightsville5.1 miles18
Bingham5.1 miles22
Bredlow Corner5.8 miles18
Tafton6.3 miles18
Dickey (historical)6.5 miles18
Wampoo6.9 miles18

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 WoodsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2425117The 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 56536. 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.