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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.

Grady within Lincoln County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Grady 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.

YearPeople Change
2000523
2010449-74 (-14%)
2020305-144 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

9 since 2004

Regional 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 February 2011Debris and open burning18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 February 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 February 2015Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011FloodGrady$750,000Widespread areal flooding occurred. Nineteen homes in Gould were damaged.
May 2011FloodGrady$750,000no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindGrady$75,000A home and several outbuildings were damaged.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGrady$50,000Many trees and power lines were blown down. Several homes were damaged.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGrady$500Thunderstorm winds blew down tree limbs.
April 2025HailGrady-Golf-ball sized hail fell in the town of Grady.
May 2022HailGrady-no account filed
April 2011HailGrady-no account filed
December 2010HailGrady-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGrady-no account filed
June 1998HailGrady-no account filed
April 1996HailGrady-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindGrady-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Shannon Tank1.1 miles15
Silt (historical)1.6 miles15
Woodville3.0 miles15
Whitefield3.2 miles15
Sarassa3.5 miles15
Youngstown (historical)4.5 miles16
Kimbrough (historical)4.8 miles16
Phenix4.9 miles15

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 GradyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79372The 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.