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McGehee, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bowie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71654. The Survey maps it on the McGehee North quadrangle. 3,849 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

McGehee within Desha County

On record in McGehee

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

McGehee fell from 4,219 to 3,849 between 2010 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
20104,219
20203,849-370 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of McGehee between 2005 and 2010, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 August 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 November 2005Debris and open burning24 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha 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 McGehee: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Savage Nobel Co Van Horn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scifres ASand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGehee in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1994Thunderstorm WindMcGehee$50,000Several homes received roof damage. A garage door was also blown off a house.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMcGehee-Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage and blew over a storage building.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMcGehee-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and damaged some roofs.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcGehee-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two storage buildings and two homes in McGehee.
January 1995HailMcGehee-no account filed
February 1995HailMcGehee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Masonville3.1 miles13
Trippe Junction4.2 miles13
Bogota (historical)4.7 miles13
McArthur5.4 miles13
Reed5.5 miles13
Halley7.6 miles13
Arkansas City10.3 miles15
Rohwer11.2 miles13

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 McGeheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79308The 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 58148. 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.