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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.

Success within Clay County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Success 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.

YearPeople Change
2010149
202098-51 (-34%)

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

4 since 1993

Regional 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
20 March 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 March 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 February 1993Smoking5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 January 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
B.L. Williams Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
York Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017FloodSuccess$1,000,000The 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 2006HailSuccess$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSuccess$5,000Some trees were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSuccess$5,000A few trees were blown down.
April 2026HailSuccess-Approximately golf ball (1.75) sized hail was reported near Success, AR.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSuccess-Trees down across Success.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSuccess-Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines across Western Clay County.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSuccess-Straight line winds damaged a roof of a barn and a home near Success.
March 2008Flash FloodSuccess-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 2025HailSuccess-no account filed
May 2024HailSuccess-no account filed
May 2024HailSuccess-no account filed
April 2009HailSuccess-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Pittman (historical)2.6 miles13
Palatka3.5 miles13
Twin Oaks4.1 miles13
Current View4.3 miles12
Datto4.4 miles13
Heelstring7.1 miles14
Corning8.2 miles13
Luehrmann (historical)9.5 miles14

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 SuccessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1837866The 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.