Grady, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Choctaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71644. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.
On record in Grady
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
- Cummins Prison Chapellisted 2024
Population over time
3 figuresGrady fell from 523 to 305 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 | 523 | |
| 2010 | 449 | -74 (-14%) |
| 2020 | 305 | -144 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1935 USGS Varner quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Grady quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Varner quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Grady between 2004 and 2017, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 December 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grady in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2011 | Flood | Grady | $750,000 | Widespread areal flooding occurred. Nineteen homes in Gould were damaged. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Grady | $750,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $75,000 | A home and several outbuildings were damaged. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $50,000 | Many trees and power lines were blown down. Several homes were damaged. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down tree limbs. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Grady | - | Golf-ball sized hail fell in the town of Grady. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| December 2010 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Tank | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Silt (historical) | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Woodville | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Whitefield | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Sarassa | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Youngstown (historical) | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Kimbrough (historical) | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Phenix | 4.9 miles | 15 |
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 Grady | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79372 | 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 77049. 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.
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.








