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.
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
J. A. Neaville Houselisted 1992- Griffithville Schoollisted 1992
- A. J. Smith Houselisted 1991
Population over time
3 figuresGriffithville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 262 | |
| 2010 | 225 | -37 (-14%) |
| 2020 | 155 | -70 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Walker quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Walker quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1998Regional 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/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | WHI17454828 |
| 9 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 58 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 June 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $40,000 | A trailer flipped over. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $30,000 | A large tree fell on an old house. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $30,000 | Trees were down, and one of the trees fell on a mobile home. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $15,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $15,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $15,000 | Power poles were blown down. |
| December 2013 | Flood | Griffithville | $10,000 | Arkansas 11 was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | $5,000 | A tin roof was torn off an old barn. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | - | A power pole was snapped. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | - | A power line was knocked down. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithville | - | A tree was blown down on the ground. |
| August 2012 | Heavy Rain | Griffithville | - | Rainfall measured 5.50 inches in 24 hours. |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Griffithville | - | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Hail | Griffithville | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Griffithville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogwood | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Egbert (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hicksville (historical) | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Walker | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Conant | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Showalters Corner | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Happy | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ellen (historical) | 3.1 miles | 13 |
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 Griffithville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2126299 | 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 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.







