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Bay, Arkansas
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Bay City Hall, July 2011
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Location of Bay in Craighead County, Arkansas.
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| Country | United States |
| State | Arkansas |
| County | Craighead |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.10 sq mi (8.02 km2) |
| • Land | 3.09 sq mi (8.00 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.02 km2) |
| Elevation | 226 ft (69 m) |
| Population
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| • Total | 1,876 |
| • Density | 607.51/sq mi (234.59/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code |
72411
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| Area code(s) | 870 |
| FIPS code | 05-04180 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2403823 |
Bay is a city in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,876 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Jonesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Bay is located in the Arkansas Delta. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2), all land.
Ecologically, Bay is located within the St. Francis Lowlands ecoregion within the larger Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The St. Francis Lowlands are a flat region mostly covered with row crop agriculture today, though also containing sand blows and sunken lands remaining from the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. Waterways have mostly been channelized, causing loss of aquatic and riparian wildlife habitat. The St. Francis Sunken Lands Wildlife Management Area, which preserves some of the bottomland hardwood forest typical of this ecoregion prior to development for row agriculture lies east of Bay along the St. Francis River.
History
Located at 35.756882,-90.56504, there are only 2 remaining mounds of society who inhabited the area between 1200 and 1400AD. The Bay group itself culturally belongs to the Lawhorn Phase, a society which existed along both sides of the St. Francis River north of Marked Tree, Arkansas.
At 3:01 PM on April 27, 2011, a tornado hit Bay as part of the 2011 Super Outbreak. The tornado was rated low-end EF2, with estimated wind speeds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h; 100 kn). The tornado lifted a carport and other light debris at the jonesboro Airport; its path of destruction was 200 yards (180 m) wide and the tornado travelled a path of 0.7 miles (1.1 km).
List of highways
Interstate 555
AR 158
AR 463
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Demographics
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 300 | — | |
| 1940 | 357 | 19.0% | |
| 1950 | 500 | 40.1% | |
| 1960 | 627 | 25.4% | |
| 1970 | 751 | 19.8% | |
| 1980 | 1,605 | 113.7% | |
| 1990 | 1,660 | 3.4% | |
| 2000 | 1,800 | 8.4% | |
| 2010 | 1,801 | 0.1% | |
| 2020 | 1,876 | 4.2% | |
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2020 census
| Race | Number | Percentage |
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| White (non-Hispanic) | 1,684 | 89.77% |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 62 | 3.3% |
| Native American | 10 | 0.53% |
| Asian | 2 | 0.11% |
| Pacific Islander | 2 | 0.11% |
| Other/Mixed | 89 | 4.74% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 27 | 1.44% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,876 people, 717 households, and 532 families residing in the city.
Notable person
- Wally Moon, baseball player
See also
In Spanish: Bay (Arkansas) para niños
