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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.

Grubbs within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Grubbs 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.

YearPeople Change
2010386
2020301-85 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4 since 1999

Regional 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/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 January 2006Arson/incendiarism66 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2007Flash FloodGrubbs$70,000Cache River near Grubbs and Amagon overflowed its banks. Many area roads were closed due to flooding.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindGrubbs$25,000Three homes had roof damage and tree limbs and power lines were down on the southeast side of Grubbs.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindGrubbs$20,000The roof was taken off a barbershop, a shed was destroyed, several trees were blown down, and a power pole was broken.
December 2011FloodGrubbs$20,000National 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 2013Thunderstorm WindGrubbs$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2009Flash FloodGrubbs$10,000Flooding closed Arkansas Highway 37 near Grubbs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGrubbs$5,000Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 18.
October 2022HailGrubbs-A picture of 1.5 inch hail was shared with the office from Grubbs via twitter.
May 2019Flash FloodGrubbs-A report of flooded roads in Grubbs was received from broadcast media via NWSCHAT.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-Portions of two irrigation pivots were overturned.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-Damage to grain bins was reported on Arkansas Highway 384. A couple of the bins were destroyed, and others were damaged.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-A few trees were blown down.
August 2003Flash FloodGrubbs-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding near Grubbs. Several county roads were covered by high water for a short period of time.
April 2003Tornado (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 2002Flash FloodGrubbs-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 2002Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off a building in Grubbs.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines and power poles.
July 2005HailGrubbs-no account filed
June 2001HailGrubbs-no account filed
June 2001HailGrubbs-no account filed
October 2001HailGrubbs-no account filed
October 2001HailGrubbs-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F1)Grubbs-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Grubbs-no account filed
January 1999HailGrubbs-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGrubbs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hale (historical)1.3 miles10
Estico2.8 miles10
Tuscany (historical)3.7 miles10
Wilkinsville (historical)3.8 miles10
Pennington4.2 miles10
Stegall4.6 miles11
Midway6.3 miles10
Amagon6.4 miles10

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 GrubbsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2618178The 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.