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.
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
- Garrett's Grocery Storelisted 2023
Population over time
2 figuresFriendship 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 176 | |
| 2020 | 158 | -18 (-10%) |
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.
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Caddo Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Arkadelphia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
161 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Murray Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cook Brothers Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Deroche Creek Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F4) | Friendship | 11 hurt, $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $40,000 | Some houses were damaged in the Friendship area. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $2,000 | A large tree was down over Interstate 30 near mile marker 83. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Friendship | - | Penny-sized hail fell in the community of Friendship. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Friendship | - | Nickel sized hail fell in the community of Friendship. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Friendship | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | Several trees were knocked down around Friendship. |
| December 1999 | Tornado (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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Friendship | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Donaldson | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Witherspoon | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Caney | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Faber | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Antioch | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Brown Springs | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Saginaw | 6.4 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 Friendship | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2452275 | 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 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.





