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Marvell, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hickory Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72366. The Survey maps it on the Marvell quadrangle. 855 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Marvell within Phillips County

On record in Marvell

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Marvell fell from 1,395 to 855 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,395
20101,186-209 (-15%)
2020855-331 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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 Marvell between 1999 and 2008, burning about 113 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 November 2000Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 October 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 January 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marvell in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 1996Tornado (F1)Marvell3 hurt, $30,000no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindMarvell$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused significant damage to some metal buildings, a house, and some very large trees. The hardwood trees were approximately 3 feet wide. One metal building had a portion of the roof peeled up as well as 2 garage doors blown in. The grain bins behind the metal building sustained dents near the top due to the winds. The house was damaged by one of the large trees falling on top of it. Two mobile homes were damaged as well with their roofs blown off. Additional smaller trees were snapped in the vicinity.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Marvell$40,000A tornado touched down briefly just west-northwest of Marvell. Several trees and power lines were knocked down. A supply feed store was damaged as the tornado crossed Highway 49.
March 2016Tornado (EF0)Marvell$25,000The tornado caused intermittent damage from west-southwest of Marvell into the town of Marvell. The tornado downed power poles and damaged a small outbuilding along Highway 1 southwest of Marvell. In town, the tornado bent street lights and a power pole. Tree limbs were broken and a baseball field scoreboard was knocked down. Peak estimated wind was 80 mph.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMarvell$25,000The roof of the Boys, Girls, Adult Community Development Center was blown off. Several trees were blown down.
April 2006HailMarvell$10,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMarvell$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMarvell$4,000Trees were knocked into power lines, 2 miles south of Marvell from straight line winds.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMarvell$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in the Marvell community.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMarvell$2,000A large tree was blown down and fell on a power line.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMarvell$1,000Several large branches down around town.
May 2004Flash FloodMarvell$1,000One road was flooded.
November 2007HailMarvell$1,000no account filed
May 2002HailMarvell$10no account filed
March 2001HailMarvell$10no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMarvell-Straight line winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines across county roads near Marvell. Approximately, one hundred people were without power in Marvell immediately after the storm. One mobile home sustained minor damage on County Road 113, outside of Marvell.
June 2023HailMarvell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Maple Corner2.9 miles13
Poplar Grove3.2 miles13
Hicks3.7 miles12
Hicksville4.0 miles12
Kingtown4.2 miles16
Trenton4.6 miles16
Kindall4.9 miles13
Cypert5.1 miles16

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 MarvellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79467The 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 51716. 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.