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Wooster, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clifton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72058. It stands on Little Greenbrier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle. 1,042 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Wooster within Faulkner County

On record in Wooster

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

Population over time

2 figures

Wooster grew from 860 to 1,042 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
2010860
20201,042+182 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

77 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Wooster between 1999 and 2020, burning about 733 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
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wooster: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
Mc Ray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wooster in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Wooster$100,000This tornado knocked down or snapped numerous trees and a few power lines. Several houses had roof damage from falling trees. One house had a gutter ripped off and one of the eaves damaged by a falling tree.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWooster$5,000Trees were down in Wooster.
May 2025HailWooster-Half dollar sized hail was measured at Wooster.
July 2024Heavy RainWooster-A 24 hour rainfall total of 7.00 inches was estimated at Wooster.
August 2022HailWooster-Quarter sized hail was reported at Wooster.
April 2020HailWooster-Quarter size hail was reported by storm spotters.
August 2010Heavy RainWooster-Rainfall measured 2.20 inches in an hour and 15 minutes.
November 2007Thunderstorm WindWooster-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Wooster-A weak tornado was spawned in western Faulkner County about 2.8 miles south of Wooster. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and caused some roof damage at several homes and also damaged a few mobile homes. Some outbuildings were destroyed, as was a dugout at a junior high school in Greenbrier. Many trees were blown down as well. The tornado dissipated 1.7 miles north-northeast of Greenbrier.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindWooster-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Wooster-A weak tornado touched down briefly in Faulkner County south of Wooster. The first signs of damage were some tops of trees snapped off just west of Highway 25. The tornado increased in intensity as is moved northeastward damaging a home and business just east of the highway. The roof of a storage building was blown off and several small greenhouses were destroyed. A home further to the northeast was damaged, with the front porch torn off and tossed into the backyard. A covered garage was destroyed as well as a nearby building. Several trees in the area were also blown down. The tornado dissipated about 2.5 miles southeast of Wooster.
February 2021HailWooster-no account filed
April 2015HailWooster-no account filed
May 2009HailWooster-no account filed
May 2008HailWooster-no account filed
March 2008HailWooster-no account filed
May 2006HailWooster-no account filed
November 2003HailWooster-no account filed
March 2003HailWooster-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodWooster-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWooster-no account filed
April 1995HailWooster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Pleasant Valley1.6 miles11
Shady Grove2.1 miles11
Springhill3.5 miles11
Bono3.9 miles13
Old Linder (historical)4.2 miles11
Greenbrier4.2 miles11
Linder4.5 miles11
Lakeview Acres5.3 miles11

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 WoosterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q931860The 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 78810. 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.