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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.

Arkansas City within Desha County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Arkansas 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.

YearPeople Change
2010366
2020376+10 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Greenville Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown1909

Every working recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindArkansas City$50,000A metal storage building was damaged. Trees and power lines were blown down around Arkansas City and elsewhere in Desha County.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindArkansas City$25,000Trees were blown down, with some of the trees falling on houses.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindArkansas City$10,000Trees were blown down and there was minor damage to a gas station.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindArkansas City$7,000A few large trees were downed with damage to a home and a car.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindArkansas City$500Few trees were blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArkansas City-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph and large tree limbs were blown down onto power lines on Natchez Street.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindArkansas City-This wind gust was estimated.
March 2013HailArkansas City-Hail the size of quarters fell on Arkansas 4.
August 2012Heavy RainArkansas City-Rainfall measured 5.00 inches in 24 hours.
September 2005Tornado (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 2017HailArkansas City-no account filed
March 2011HailArkansas City-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindArkansas City-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindArkansas City-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindArkansas City-no account filed
January 1995HailArkansas City-no account filed
May 1995HailArkansas City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Trippe Junction6.8 miles13
Jersey Point6.9 miles16
Lucca Landing7.4 miles15
Halley8.0 miles13
McArthur8.8 miles13
Bogota (historical)8.8 miles13
McGehee10.3 miles13
Masonville10.6 miles13

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79445The 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.