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Briggsville, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Briggsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72828. It stands on McClain Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rover quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Briggsville within Yell County

On record in Briggsville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Briggsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 490 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1999Natural12 acresOuachita National ForestALLEN FOOT #1
8 September 2012Natural23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresOuachita National ForestWAYCO
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2000Smoking8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Natural9.5 acresOuachita National ForestCEDAR CREEK
12 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

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 Briggsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Hunt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Briggsville in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1993Thunderstorm WindBriggsville$5,000Several trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBriggsville-Trees were blown down in Briggsville blocking State Highways 28 and 307.
May 2015Flash FloodBriggsville-Highway 28 west of Briggsville was flooded.
November 2003HailBriggsville-Hail covered the ground.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Briggsville-A weak tornado touched down briefly in the Ouachita National Forest southwest of Briggsville. The only damage noted were a few small trees that were twisted and downed.
February 2009HailBriggsville-no account filed
April 2004HailBriggsville-no account filed
September 1999HailBriggsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Wing1.8 miles13
Fourche Valley2.5 miles16
Pleasant Hill3.9 miles16
Shark4.4 miles16
Rover4.8 miles13
Dentontown (historical)5.2 miles18
Macedonia5.2 miles17
Chalybeate Springs5.5 miles16

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 BriggsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4967283The 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 81846. 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.