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Floyd, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cadron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. It stands on Sappington Branch. The Survey maps it on the Floyd quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Floyd within White County

On record in Floyd

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,078 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2

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
6 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2012Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Floyd: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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
Dugout QuarryFlagstoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 2 injuries. 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
January 1999Tornado (F2)Floyd2 killed, 2 hurtno account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Floyd$25,000Trees were blown down and there was roof damage to a few structures.
September 2009Flash FloodFloyd$10,000Beebe-Capps Expressway was partially flooded on the outside lanes. Arkansas Highway 367 south of Searcy had waster over the road in several places. Arkansas Highway 36 west of Searcy had water over it in several places. Lake Barnett was flooded and several creeks in Searcy were out of their banks.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFloyd$1,000A tree was blown down on Arkansas 31.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Multiple trees were damaged and sheet metal panels were blown off a metal shop building near the community of Floyd.
June 1995HailFloyd-Hail up to quarter-size damaged roofs and broke windows at Floyd.
April 2014HailFloyd-no account filed
October 2002HailFloyd-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFloyd-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Sunrise (historical)3.2 miles10
Brundige (historical)3.5 miles10
Harmony4.4 miles10
Gravel Hill4.7 miles9
Antioch4.9 miles10
Romance5.5 miles11
Hammondsville6.3 miles11
Essex6.4 miles10

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 FloydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5462367The 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 81859. 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.