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Biggers, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Current River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72413. The Survey maps it on the Reyno quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 282 feet above sea level.

Biggers within Randolph County

On record in Biggers

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

3 figures

Biggers fell from 355 to 305 between 2000 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
2000355
2010347-8 (-2%)
2020305-42 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Biggers between 1997 and 2016, burning about 264 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 March 2006Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 March 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Biggers: 5 unknowns. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Biggers in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
August 2020Tornado (EF2)Biggers$200,000A storm survey crew from the NWS Office in Little Rock found tornado consistent with an EF2 rating. A house sustained major roof damage on Highway 328 west of Maynard, with most of the walls still standing. An agricultural shop was destroyed 2 miles south of Biggers. ||The tornado started just southeast of US67/62 southwest of|Biggers, destroying a metal farm building and snapping trees|along Lutrell Cemetery Road. The tornado continued northwest|blowing in some garage doors on some large metal buildings, along|with snapping limbs off of multiple trees along Gas Plant and|Biggers-Reyno roads. The tornado continued northwest for several|miles, causing mainly damage to trees, from broken limbs, to|uprooting or snapping those tree trunks. The worst damage was|observed at a site built home off of State Hwy 328 and Jerrett|Loop Road southwest of Maynard, where large sections of the roof|were torn off allowing a couple walls to fall inward. At the same|residence, a large metal outbuilding or barn was destroyed. Many|mature trees were snapped or uprooted around this location. The|tornado finally lifted further northwest along State Hwy 251|south of Palestine Road.
January 2002Flash FloodBiggers$80,000One bridge was washed out.
February 2022Thunderstorm WindBiggers$40,000A roof was blown off a duplex in Biggers.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBiggers$35,000A school had its roof blown off. Numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBiggers$5,000Straight line winds knocked down a tree onto a house near Biggers.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBiggers$2,000Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines near Biggers.
October 2004Tornado (F0)Biggers$1,000A tornado briefly touched down in Biggers producing minimal damage.
March 2006HailBiggers$10no account filed
February 1997HailBiggers$10no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBiggers-A report was received from the public of a 70 mph wind gust.
October 2014HailBiggers-Golf ball size hail fell southwest of Biggers, near Current River Beach.
July 2013Flash FloodBiggers-Biggers received 3.5 to 3.75 inches of rain which produced flash flooding. Numerous streets were flooded and impassable as a result.
June 2011HailBiggers-Dime to quarter size hail fell in the town of Biggers.
April 2007Flash FloodBiggers-Heavy rain caused flash flooding to occur near Biggers. Some rural roads were flooded as a result.
June 2009HailBiggers-no account filed
April 1994HailBiggers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Old Reyno2.5 miles12
Keller (historical)3.3 miles12
Reyno3.5 miles12
Washington5.1 miles11
Running Lake (historical)5.3 miles12
Engelberg5.5 miles12
Debrow (historical)5.5 miles12
Poluca (historical)6.3 miles12

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 BiggersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2157758The 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 46616. 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.