Grubbs, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grubbs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72431. The Survey maps it on the Grubbs quadrangle. 301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrubbs fell from 386 to 301 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 386 | |
| 2020 | 301 | -85 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1935 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Grubbs quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Grubbs between 1999 and 2007, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 66 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grubbs in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Grubbs | $70,000 | Cache River near Grubbs and Amagon overflowed its banks. Many area roads were closed due to flooding. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | $25,000 | Three homes had roof damage and tree limbs and power lines were down on the southeast side of Grubbs. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | $20,000 | The roof was taken off a barbershop, a shed was destroyed, several trees were blown down, and a power pole was broken. |
| December 2011 | Flood | Grubbs | $20,000 | National Weather Service employees surveyed the Cache River and observed that parts of Arkansas 37 were inundated south of Grubbs. This was during the period when the Cache River at Patterson was above major flood stage. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Grubbs | $10,000 | Flooding closed Arkansas Highway 37 near Grubbs. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | $5,000 | Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 18. |
| October 2022 | Hail | Grubbs | - | A picture of 1.5 inch hail was shared with the office from Grubbs via twitter. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Grubbs | - | A report of flooded roads in Grubbs was received from broadcast media via NWSCHAT. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | Portions of two irrigation pivots were overturned. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | Damage to grain bins was reported on Arkansas Highway 384. A couple of the bins were destroyed, and others were damaged. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Grubbs | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding near Grubbs. Several county roads were covered by high water for a short period of time. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Grubbs | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly north of Grubbs. The only damage noted along the track of the tornado were several medium sized trees blown down and a downed power line. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Grubbs | - | Heavy rains fell over Jackson County. Flash flooding resulted with numerous roads covered by high water around Grubbs and Highway 14 was flooded in several locations. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off a building in Grubbs. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines and power poles. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grubbs | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hale (historical) | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Estico | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Tuscany (historical) | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Wilkinsville (historical) | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Pennington | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Stegall | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Midway | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Amagon | 6.4 miles | 10 |
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 Grubbs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2618178 | 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 49697. 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.





