Beedeville, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cow Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72014. The Survey maps it on the Beedeville quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 218 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeedeville fell from 107 to 84 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 | 107 | |
| 2020 | 84 | -23 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Beedeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Beedeville between 1992 and 2010, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | BLACK |
| 15 April 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | ALLEN |
| 2 March 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | HWY 145 |
| 13 November 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | BRECKENRIDGE |
| 10 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | BEEDEVILLE FIRE |
| 1 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | NICHOLSON SANCTUARY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beedeville in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | $600,000 | A building belonging to an agricultural flying service was destroyed, as was the crop dusting plane inside it. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | $15,000 | Concrete blocks were blown out of the walls of an old store. Large limbs were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | $10,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | $2,000 | Tin was blown off a garage. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Beedeville | - | Beedeville observer reported water coverning the roads around Beedeville. Observer reported near 4 inches of rainfall with rain still falling. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | - | Trees and power lines downed. |
| November 2004 | Flash Flood | Beedeville | - | Heavy rainfall flooded a portion of Highway 37 near Beedeville. The roadway was impassible for a few hours due to the high water. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Hail | Beedeville | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Beedeville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eightmile (historical) | 1.4 miles | 10 | |
| McFadden | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cow Lake (historical) | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Gourd Neck | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Blackville | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Algoa | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Stringers Mill | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Weldon | 6.5 miles | 10 |
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 Beedeville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2452862 | 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 46335. 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.
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.





