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Gravelly, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gravelly Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72838. It stands on Jennings Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gravelly quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Gravelly within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Gravelly between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,442 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestABOUTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gravelly in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 flood, 5 heavy rain, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2013FloodGravelly$75,000Very heavy rainfall on the evening of the 30th into the morning hours of the 31st caused the Fourche LaFave River near Gravelly to rise rapidly above flood stage during the morning hours on the 31st, reaching a record level of 32.6 feet about midday. This river remained above flood stage into the early morning hours on June 1st.
November 2011FloodGravelly$25,000Heavy rainfall caused the Fourche LaFave River near Gravelly to rise above flood stage during the early morning hours on the 22nd. This river reached over 29 feet before receding below flood stage during the evening hours on the same day. The crest of 29.38 feet reached during the afternoon of the 22nd was the 5th highest crest on record.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGravelly$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 2025FloodGravelly-Minor river flooding was observed at Gravelly along the Fourche LaFave River.
January 2025FloodGravelly-The Fouche LaFave River at Gravelly entered minor flood stage in late January for a brief period of time before dropping below flood stage just before the end of the month. The river at this site would crest on 1/31/2025 at 0315 LST of 25.93 feet.
March 2024HailGravelly-Large apple sized hail fell in the community of Gravelly.
February 2023FloodGravelly-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Fourche LaFave River at Gravelly in early February.
March 2023FloodGravelly-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Fourche LaFave River at Gravelly in early March.
November 2022Tornado (EF1)Gravelly-The tornado began along Little Texas Road south of Highway 28 in Yell County. Several pine and hardwood trees were either snapped or uprooted along Little Texas Road and Billingsley Lane. As the tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 28 near Gafford Creek, a carport was destroyed but the home received no damage. Additional tree damage occurred as the tornado crossed Gafford Creek with the tornado dissipating shortly after near Bluff Road.
September 2020FloodGravelly-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Fourche LaFave River in Gravelly in early September.
September 2020Heavy RainGravelly-The automated gauge at the Fourche Lafave River near Gravelly measured 4.30 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
September 2020Heavy RainGravelly-The COOP observer at Gravelly measured 4.15 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
September 2020Heavy RainGravelly-The COOP observer at Gravelly measured 4.15 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
April 2016FloodGravelly-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Fourche LaFave River at the end of April.
May 2015Flash FloodGravelly-Highway 28 near Little Texas Road were flooded.
May 2015FloodGravelly-The Fourche La Fave River at Gravelly rose above flood stage during the morning hours of the 11th, falling back below flood stage just after midnight on the 12th.
June 2013FloodGravelly-Very heavy rainfall in late May caused the Fourche LaFave River near Gravelly to rise rapidly above flood stage during the morning hours on May 31st, reaching a record level of 32.6 feet about midday. This river remained above flood stage into the early morning hours on June 1st before falling below flood stage before sunrise that same day.
November 2011Heavy RainGravelly-Gravelly recorded the wettest November ever. Rainfall of 11.24 inches broke the record of 11.04 inches set in 1952.
May 2010FloodGravelly-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms on the 20th caused the Fourche LaFave River at Gravelly to rise above flood stage during the afternoon of the 20th, before falling back below flood stage during the early morning hours of the 21st.
September 2009Heavy RainGravelly-Gravelly broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of September.
March 2023HailGravelly-no account filed
October 2002HailGravelly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Young Gravelly2.7 miles16
Bluffton4.8 miles16
Pleasant Hill7.9 miles16
Waltreak8.0 miles16
Fourche Valley8.4 miles16
Chula9.1 miles16
Chalybeate Springs9.4 miles16
Briggsville10.8 miles13

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 GravellyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5597852The 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 77059. 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.