BlockGosnell, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bowen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72315. The Survey maps it on the Blytheville quadrangle. 2,910 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.
On record in Gosnell
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Blytheville Air Force Base Capehart Housing Historic Districtlisted 2015 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresGosnell fell from 3,548 to 2,910 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 | 3,548 | |
| 2020 | 2,910 | -638 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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 Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gosnell in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | $50,000 | One home near Gosnell was destroyed by a blown down tree. Some highway equipment was also damaged. Trees and interstate highway signs were also knocked down. A tree also fell on a house 10 miles northeast of Blytheville producing major damage to the house. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Gosnell | $50,000 | Hail was reported to be the size of a pigeon egg. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Gosnell | $25,000 | Several roads were flooded in the Gosnell area. Water reached at least one home. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | $20,000 | Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines throughout Gosnell and the Arkansas International Airport(old Blytheville Air Force Base). Two-thirds of Gosnell was without power due to the storm. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Gosnell | $10,000 | Hail was reported to be the size of a pigeon egg. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Gosnell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Flood | Gosnell | $1,000 | A subdivision which usually floods during heavy rain events was flooded. Water covered several roads in the subdivision for a few hours. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Gosnell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Gosnell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Gosnell | $100 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Gosnell | $10 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Gosnell | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | - | Straight line winds knocked down many fences in Gosnell. A building suffered roof damage in Blytheville. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosnell | - | A gust front ahead of a line of thunderstorms produced wind gusts up to 60 mph in Gosnell. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Gosnell | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gosnell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calumet | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| North Sabie (historical) | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Paepcke (historical) | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Midway | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Chickasawba | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Little Green Store | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Woodland Corner | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Yarbro | 3.5 miles | 10 |
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 Gosnell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q80156 | 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 77044. 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.