Success, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brown-Carpenter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72470. The Survey maps it on the Datto quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.
On record in Success
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
Baynham Houselisted 1978- Waddle Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresSuccess fell from 149 to 98 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 | 149 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -51 (-34%) |
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.
- 1935 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Datto quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Success between 1993 and 2011, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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 burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 March 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 10 February 1993 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 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 Success: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.L. Williams Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| York Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Success in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Flood | Success | $1,000,000 | The Current River experienced a record flood upstream at Doniphan, MO in early May. The water moved downstream and caused the evacuation of Success, AR on May 1st. Highways 328 and 211 were flooded along with thousands of acres of farmland. The swiftness of the water deposited large amounts of sand and gravel across much of the farmland. Highway 67 south of Corning was flooded. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Success | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | $5,000 | Some trees were blown down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Success | - | Approximately golf ball (1.75) sized hail was reported near Success, AR. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Trees down across Success. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines across Western Clay County. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Straight line winds damaged a roof of a barn and a home near Success. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Success | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in northwest Clay County. Highway 211 from Old Highway 67 to the Missouri state line was closed due to flooding. Numerous county roads were flooded in the Success area. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Success | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittman (historical) | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Palatka | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Twin Oaks | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Current View | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Datto | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Heelstring | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Corning | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Luehrmann (historical) | 9.5 miles | 14 |
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 Success | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1837866 | 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 58704. 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.







