Arkansas City, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71630. The Survey maps it on the Arkansas City quadrangle. 376 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 135 feet above sea level.
On record in Arkansas City
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 6 records
Arkansas City High Schoollisted 1984
Desha County Courthouselisted 1976
Hubert & Ionia Furr Houselisted 2011
Mound Cemeterylisted 2008
Xenophon Overton Pindall Law Officelisted 1999
Thane Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresArkansas City grew from 366 to 376 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 366 | |
| 2020 | 376 | +10 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1933 USGS Lamont quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Lamont quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Arkansas City quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Lamont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arkansas City: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | 1909 |
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkansas City in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | $50,000 | A metal storage building was damaged. Trees and power lines were blown down around Arkansas City and elsewhere in Desha County. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | $25,000 | Trees were blown down, with some of the trees falling on houses. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | $10,000 | Trees were blown down and there was minor damage to a gas station. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | $7,000 | A few large trees were downed with damage to a home and a car. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | $500 | Few trees were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph and large tree limbs were blown down onto power lines on Natchez Street. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | - | This wind gust was estimated. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Arkansas City | - | Hail the size of quarters fell on Arkansas 4. |
| August 2012 | Heavy Rain | Arkansas City | - | Rainfall measured 5.00 inches in 24 hours. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Arkansas City | - | A weak tornado was spawned in southeast Desha County. The tornado moved to the northwest around the remnants of Hurricane Rita. Estimated winds with the tornado were about 60 mph. The tornado caused minor damage to a couple of company buildings along the Mississippi River. The tornado also destroyed a carport at a residence, and uprooted or snapped some trees. The tornado was on the ground for 11 miles before dissipating. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Arkansas City | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Arkansas City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trippe Junction | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Jersey Point | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Lucca Landing | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Halley | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| McArthur | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bogota (historical) | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| McGehee | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Masonville | 10.6 miles | 13 |
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 Arkansas City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79445 | 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 76190. 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.
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.






