BlockDyess, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dyess Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72330. The Survey maps it on the Joiner quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.
On record in Dyess
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
Dyess Colony Centerlisted 1976
Population over time
3 figuresDyess fell from 515 to 339 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 515 | |
| 2010 | 410 | -105 (-20%) |
| 2020 | 339 | -71 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1939 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Joiner quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyess in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyess | $25,000 | A trailer was blown down. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyess | $15,000 | The roof was torn off a mobile home and trees were knocked down in Dyess. A center pivot was flipped over and siding was torn off the side of a house. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyess | $15,000 | Two metal barns were destroyed. Several windows were broken. Several large trees were uprooted. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Dyess | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Dyess | $10 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Dyess | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dyess | $10 | no account filed |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Dyess | - | Flooded roadways in areas near Dyess, Arkansas. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Dyess | - | County road 924 closed due to flooding. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyess | - | Straight line winds knocked down power poles on County Road 940 just east of Dyess. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McClendons Corner | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wardell | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bondsville | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Muir | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bardstown | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Westover | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Norden | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Helfer Landing | 5.0 miles | 11 |
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 Dyess | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2660569 | 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 82838. 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.
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.