Leachville, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neal Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72438. The Survey maps it on the Leachville quadrangle. 2,039 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
On record in Leachville
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
Population over time
3 figuresLeachville grew from 1,981 to 2,039 between 1999 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,981 | |
| 2010 | 1,993 | +12 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 2,039 | +46 (+2%) |
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.
- 1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leachville in 2014, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BEAR PEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leachville in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2021 | Tornado (EF3) | Leachville | 1 killed, $1,250,000 | After crossing from Craighead County into Mississippi County the tornado struck the northern portions of Leachville, in northwestern Mississippi County. Several homes suffered partial or complete roof loss in northwestern Leachville. A restaurant, store, and cotton gin suffered considerable damage along Highway 77, and numerous power poles were snapped. A fatality occurred in the store. Anchors to the store's metal frame were pulled out of the concrete foundation. The tornado's path was estimated at nearly a mile wide in this area. The tornado approached the Little River area south of Hornersville, near the Arkansas/Missouri state line. A stand of trees was debarked east of Arkansas County Road 243. Several homes and mobile homes were heavily damaged or destroyed along State Line Road. Additional debarking of trees was noted. The tornado then crossed into Dunklin County, Missouri. Peak winds in Mississippi County were estimated at 145 mph. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $35,000 | A shed and a farm shop were destroyed in Leachville. A home was damaged in Manila. Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $20,000 | Straight line winds blew a roof off of a grocery store in Leachville. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $20,000 | Some trees and power poles were blown down. Some of the trees fell on at least one house in West Ridge. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $15,000 | The roof was completely blown off of an occupied mobile home. The family lost all their belongings as a result. Several trees were knocked down. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $10,000 | A home and a shed were damaged. A window was also blown out of the courthouse in Osceola. Power lines were also knocked down with a few trees uprooted. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $10,000 | One building in Leachville was damaged. Some large trees and power poles were blown down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $10,000 | Some trees and utility poles were knocked down. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $5,000 | A couple of mobile homes were damaged. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | $5,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Leachville | $5,000 | The tornado touched down near Leachville and tracked northeast. Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Leachville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Leachville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Leachville | $170 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Leachville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Leachville | - | Portions of AR Hwy 119 were closed due to high water. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leachville | - | Straight line winds knocked trees and power lines down across Mississippi County. A road sign for a local store was knocked down in Keiser. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Leachville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearwater | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Springfield (historical) | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Orr (historical) | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Brown (historical) | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Garson | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Boynton | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Happy Corners | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Carmi | 3.4 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 Leachville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79341 | 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 58049. 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.





