BlockHalley, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Halley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71638. The Survey maps it on the Halley quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Mc Gehee SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Halley quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Halley between 2002 and 2005, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 February 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 January 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halley in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Halley | $100,000 | This tornado moved out of Chicot County into Desha County. One mobile home was knocked off its foundation, had its porch torn off, and had a large metal intermodal shipping container in the back yard overturn and crash into the rear wall of the mobile home, smashing in the kitchen wall. A house had its porch torn off, roof damage, a hole punched in a wall, and broken windows. Another house had a considerable amount of roofing material torn off. At another house, the attached carport was torn off, with much of it landing on the roof of the house. Several sheds were destroyed, large trees were blown down, and several power poles were snapped off. The tornado then exited Desha County 5.1 miles east-northeast of Halley and re-entered Chicot County near the Yellow Bend Port. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halley | $10,000 | Part of a barn was blown down, as were some trees. |
| January 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Halley | $5,000 | This tornado crossed the Chicot/Desha County line around 744 PM CST, and did sparse damage along Arkansas Highway 35, knocking over a few telephone poles along the road, More conclusive evidence was noted in the cotton fields alongside the road, where swaths of convergent flow and damaged cotton were observed for around a half mile, between the county line and the town of Halley, with the tornado dissipating just before reaching Halley. This track is a continuation of a tornado that was ongoing, originating in Ashley County and moving through Chicot County. Peak wind speed was 80 mph. |
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Halley | $5,000 | This is a continuation of a tornado from Chicot County AR. As the tornado crossed into Desha County, some trees were snapped and uprooted, along with some power lines blown down. |
| December 2024 | Hail | Halley | - | Baseball sized hail fell near the community of Halley which destroyed multiple car windows. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Halley | - | Water inundated farms over southern Desha County. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Halley | - | Highway 159 was blocked by high water between the towns of Halley and McGehee. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halley | - | Damage across southern Desha County was determined to be the result of winds estimated at 75 to 80 mph. Several large trees were blown down or snapped and power lines and power poles were damaged heavily as well...blocking roads. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Halley | - | no account filed |
| February 1993 | Hail | Halley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trippe Junction | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Masonville | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| McGehee | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Arkansas City | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Bogota (historical) | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| McArthur | 10.6 miles | 13 | |
| Reed | 13.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lucca Landing | 13.7 miles | 15 |
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 Halley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q26689416 | 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 57868. 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.