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Griffithville, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72060. The Survey maps it on the Walker quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Griffithville within White County

On record in Griffithville

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Griffithville fell from 262 to 155 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
2000262
2010225-37 (-14%)
2020155-70 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Griffithville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarism75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17454828
9 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2006Debris and open burning58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Griffithville in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$40,000A trailer flipped over.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$30,000A large tree fell on an old house.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$30,000Trees were down, and one of the trees fell on a mobile home.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$15,000Power poles were blown down.
December 2013FloodGriffithville$10,000Arkansas 11 was closed due to flooding.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGriffithville$5,000A tin roof was torn off an old barn.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGriffithville-A power pole was snapped.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGriffithville-A power line was knocked down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGriffithville-A tree was blown down on the ground.
August 2012Heavy RainGriffithville-Rainfall measured 5.50 inches in 24 hours.
May 2006Flash FloodGriffithville-no account filed
February 2001HailGriffithville-no account filed
April 1994HailGriffithville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Dogwood2.2 miles13
Egbert (historical)2.3 miles13
Hicksville (historical)2.3 miles12
Walker2.4 miles13
Conant2.6 miles14
Showalters Corner2.8 miles12
Happy2.9 miles14
Ellen (historical)3.1 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 GriffithvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2126299The 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 57852. 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.