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.
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
Jay Lewis Houselisted 2005
McGehee City Jaillisted 2011
McGehee National Guard Armorylisted 2006
McGehee Post Officelisted 2010
Missouri Pacific Railway Van Noy Eating Houselisted 2011
Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-McGeheelisted 1992
Parnell-Sharpe Houselisted 1989
Temple Meir Chayimlisted 1999
Trippe Holly Grove Cemeterylisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresMcGehee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,219 | |
| 2020 | 3,849 | -370 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Mc Gehee NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Mc Gehee North quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2005Regional 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savage Nobel Co Van Horn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Scifres A | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McGehee | $50,000 | Several homes received roof damage. A garage door was also blown off a house. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McGehee | - | Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage and blew over a storage building. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McGehee | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and damaged some roofs. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McGehee | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two storage buildings and two homes in McGehee. |
| January 1995 | Hail | McGehee | - | no account filed |
| February 1995 | Hail | McGehee | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masonville | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Trippe Junction | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bogota (historical) | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| McArthur | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Reed | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Halley | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Arkansas City | 10.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rohwer | 11.2 miles | 13 |
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 McGehee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79308 | 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 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.







