BlockHughes, Arkansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Garland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72348. The Survey maps it on the Hughes quadrangle. 1,056 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.
On record in Hughes
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 1 record
Hughes Water Towerlisted 2006
Population over time
3 figuresHughes fell from 1,867 to 1,056 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 | 1,867 | |
| 2010 | 1,441 | -426 (-23%) |
| 2020 | 1,056 | -385 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 19 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.
- 1931 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Horseshoe Lake NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Hughes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughes in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Lightning | Hughes | $60,000 | Lightning destroyed home in Newcastle community north of Forrest City. The home was a total loss. |
| January 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Hughes | $50,000 | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Hughes | $25,000 | A mobile home was overturned. Several homes were damaged. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughes | $5,000 | Several big trees and power lines were blown down. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Hughes | $1,000 | Several roads and parking lots in the area had between 2 and 4 inches of water covering them. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hughes | $750 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hughes | $200 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hughes | $50 | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Hughes | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Hughes | $10 | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Hughes | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Hughes | - | There was about two feet of water rushing across County Road 313. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughes | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees on to county vehicles on Highway 284 and at the intersection of Highway 75 and Highway 70. One mobile home was severely damaged at the intersection of Highway 70 and Highway 79 in Chatfield. Two mobile homes were severely damaged in Shearerville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Gum Farm | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| North Hughes | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Belle Meade | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Sycamore Bend Farm | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Shannondale | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Penjur | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Mud Lake | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Nickey (historical) | 3.9 miles | 19 |
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 Hughes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79678 | 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 83178. 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.
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.