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Greers Ferry, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72067. It lies near Poker Hill. The Survey maps it on the Greers Ferry quadrangle. 821 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

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Greers Ferry within Cleburne County

Population over time

2 figures

Greers Ferry fell from 891 to 821 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.

YearPeople Change
2010891
2020821-70 (-8%)

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

68 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Greers Ferry between 1998 and 2020, burning about 919 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Greers Ferry: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkStone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pryor MtnSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greers Ferry in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry$20,000Trees were down across Greers Ferry.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry$10,000Trees were blown down.
January 2007Flash FloodGreers Ferry$5,000High water covered several roads in the western part of the county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry$1,000A tree was blown down, damaging a shed.
April 2011HailGreers Ferry-Hail the size of quarters was common across Greers Ferry.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph outside of Greers Ferry.
May 2008Flash FloodGreers Ferry-Roads were washed out due to heavy rain.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-A tree was reported down on Arkansas Highway 16.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs, knocked down a portion of a fence and blew around some large propane bottles.
June 1995HailGreers Ferry-Thunderstorm winds blew camping trailers over and uprooted trees in the Heber Springs area. Some of the trees fell onto camping trailers.
June 1995HailGreers Ferry-Thunderstorm winds blew camping trailers over and uprooted trees in the Heber Springs area. Some of the trees fell onto camping trailers.
December 2012HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
July 2010HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
May 2009HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
May 2008HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
May 2008HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
April 2007HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
April 2006HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
July 2004HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
July 2004HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-no account filed
March 1996HailGreers Ferry-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGreers Ferry-no account filed
April 1994HailGreers Ferry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Post Oak0.3 miles15
Higden1.4 miles15
Lone Pine1.9 miles15
Edgemont2.0 miles15
Whispering Springs3.3 miles15
Budd Creek3.4 miles16
Shiloh (historical)3.5 miles15
Sunny Slope4.1 miles16

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 Greers FerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79355The 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 49672. 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.