West Memphis, Arkansas

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Crittenden County

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

• Johnson-Portis Houselisted 2017
• Memphis and Arkansas Bridgelisted 2001
• Riverside Speedwaylisted 2010
• Wilson Power and Light Company Ice Plantlisted 2010
• Dabbs Storelisted 1982
• Hamilton Apartmentslisted 1998
• Lawrie Houselisted 1996
• West Memphis City Halllisted 2010
• West Memphis Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2008

West Memphis fell from 26,245 to 24,520 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:48000
• 1927 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1939 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS West Memphis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS West Memphis quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of West Memphis: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Memphis in 58 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 23 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78727. 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.

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.