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Marianna, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72360. The Survey maps it on the Marianna quadrangle. 3,575 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

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Marianna within Lee County

On record in Marianna

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 10 records

Population over time

3 figures

Marianna grew from 627 to 3,575 between 1880 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
1880627
20104,115
20203,575-540 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Marianna between 1994 and 2013, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTAYLOR
13 June 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 March 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCABIN ROAD
24 March 1994Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWEST FIRE
19 March 1994Debris and open burning10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsKEISLING
12 March 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR CREEK LAKE
9 February 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPICKETT 1
15 January 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSNOOPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Marianna: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lee CtySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marianna in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMarianna1 killed, $5,000A tree was blown over and fell on a car killing the driver. Other trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMarianna$25,000Roof partially peeled off of a retail building on Chestnut Street.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMarianna$20,000Power poles knocked down between Brickeys and Marianna.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMarianna$20,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in both Marianna and Aubrey.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMarianna$15,000Three homes suffered minor damage. A large door on a farm shop was blown in. A small storage building overturned and rolled. Some farm equipment was moved around. Some trees and power lines were knocked down as well.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMarianna$10,000Several broken utility poles on Chestnut Street in Marianna.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindMarianna$10,000Straight line winds damaged trailers and knocked down trees along Highway 1, just south of Marianna.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMarianna$5,000Several power lines were knocked down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMarianna$5,000Some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMarianna$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and blew a car off the road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarianna$4,000Straight line winds blew several trees and power lines down in Marianna.
April 2008HailMarianna$2,000Quarter hail fell along Highway 79, 5 miles west of Marianna.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMarianna$2,000no account filed
October 2009Flash FloodMarianna$1,000Several streets were flooded in the downtown section of Marianna.
March 2008HailMarianna$1,000no account filed
April 2007HailMarianna$1,000no account filed
May 2007HailMarianna$1,000no account filed
April 2006HailMarianna$1,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMarianna$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
June 2003HailMarianna$10no account filed
April 1998HailMarianna$10no account filed
January 2023Flash FloodMarianna-Highway 79 was closed in both directions in Marianna.
March 2021HailMarianna-Golf ball size hail fell near Marianna.
April 2019FloodMarianna-Heavy rain resulted in flooding on Highway 79 in Marianna.
February 2018FloodMarianna-High water temporarily blocked Highway 79, near the railroad trestle, in Marianna.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMarianna-Straight line winds knocked a few trees and power poles down in Marianna.
April 2011Flash FloodMarianna-Heavy rain produced flash flooding near Marianna. Creeks and ditches that run into the L'Anguille River were overflowing between Highway 1 and the river, northwest of Marianna.
June 2011HailMarianna-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell near Highway 79 just west of Marianna.
March 2025HailMarianna-no account filed
May 2024HailMarianna-no account filed
June 2023HailMarianna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Felton2.9 miles15
Oakwood3.1 miles16
Scott Valley3.1 miles12
Greer Place4.7 miles17
Wrightland4.8 miles15
Jeffersonville5.6 miles16
Canaan5.9 miles15
Soudan6.3 miles17

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 MariannaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79582The 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 58123. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.