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Friendship, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71942. It stands on DeLisle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caddo Valley quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Friendship within Hot Spring County

On record in Friendship

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

2 figures

Friendship fell from 176 to 158 between 2010 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
2010176
2020158-18 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

161 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 40 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Friendship: 12 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Caddo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Murray Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cook Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deroche Creek QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 11 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
March 1997Tornado (F4)Friendship11 hurt, $2,000,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFriendship$40,000Some houses were damaged in the Friendship area.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFriendship$2,000A large tree was down over Interstate 30 near mile marker 83.
April 2024HailFriendship-Penny-sized hail fell in the community of Friendship.
August 2024HailFriendship-Nickel sized hail fell in the community of Friendship.
September 2013Heavy RainFriendship-During the morning of the 21st, trees fell in two different places on Arkansas 84 east of Bismarck, blocking the highway. Then, early in the evening, a tree fell on the westbound lanes of Interstate 30 about 3 miles northeast of Friendship. The tree blocked the highway. One car ran into the fallen tree, but no one was injured. Then, a two-car accident occurred, but once again, there were no injuries. Rainfall measured 3.10 inches at Malvern.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Several trees were knocked down around Friendship.
December 1999Tornado (F1)Friendship-A weak tornado was spawned in Hot Spring County. The tornado developed around 2 miles southeast of Friendship and caused mostly tree damage. Hundreds of trees were either snapped or twisted. The tornado crossed U.S. Highway 67 at the Ouachita River bridge and destroyed a barn and damaged the back porch of a house in the area. The tornado dissipated about 2 miles northwest of Donaldson.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Several trees were knocked down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFriendship-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
March 2016HailFriendship-no account filed
June 2009HailFriendship-no account filed
April 2002HailFriendship-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFriendship-no account filed
March 1999Tornado (F2)Friendship-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFriendship-no account filed
May 1994HailFriendship-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Midway3.0 miles11
Donaldson4.3 miles9
Witherspoon4.5 miles9
Caney4.5 miles7
Faber5.2 miles9
Antioch6.2 miles11
Brown Springs6.3 miles9
Saginaw6.4 miles11

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 FriendshipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2452275The 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 57775. 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.