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.
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
- CCC Company 749 Powder Magazinelisted 2007
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1890 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Rover quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 12 acres | Ouachita National Forest | ALLEN FOOT #1 |
| 8 September 2012 | Natural | 23 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 17 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Ouachita National Forest | WAYCO |
| 14 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2000 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Natural | 9.5 acres | Ouachita National Forest | CEDAR CREEK |
| 12 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Briggsville | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Briggsville | - | Trees were blown down in Briggsville blocking State Highways 28 and 307. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Briggsville | - | Highway 28 west of Briggsville was flooded. |
| November 2003 | Hail | Briggsville | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (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 2009 | Hail | Briggsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Briggsville | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Briggsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wing | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Fourche Valley | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Shark | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Rover | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Dentontown (historical) | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Macedonia | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Chalybeate Springs | 5.5 miles | 16 |
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 Briggsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4967283 | 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 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.







