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.
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
First Baptist Churchlisted 1991
Mayo Houselisted 1997
Population over time
3 figuresMarvell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,395 | |
| 2010 | 1,186 | -209 (-15%) |
| 2020 | 855 | -331 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 November 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 90 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 January 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Marvell | 3 hurt, $30,000 | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Marvell | $40,000 | A 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 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Marvell | $25,000 | The 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $25,000 | The roof of the Boys, Girls, Adult Community Development Center was blown off. Several trees were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Marvell | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $4,000 | Trees were knocked into power lines, 2 miles south of Marvell from straight line winds. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in the Marvell community. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $2,000 | A large tree was blown down and fell on a power line. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | $1,000 | Several large branches down around town. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Marvell | $1,000 | One road was flooded. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Marvell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Marvell | $10 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Marvell | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvell | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Marvell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Corner | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Poplar Grove | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hicks | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hicksville | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Kingtown | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Trenton | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Kindall | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cypert | 5.1 miles | 16 |
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 Marvell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79467 | 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 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.









