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Bay
Arkansascity
Bay
Total population
2,333
Median home value
$118,400
Bachelor's+
Median income
$59,769
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
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.
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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 lifted a carport and other light debris at the jonesboro Airport; its path of destruction was wide and the tornado travelled a path of . * Interstate 555 * *
Geography
Bay is located in the Arkansas Delta. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , 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.
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Race & ethnicity
Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.
Geography
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Forecast for Bay, AR from NOAA NWS API.
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Health (adults)
Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).
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Schools
Largest nearby schools
- NETTLETON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · JONESBORO · 981 students · 12:1 ratio
- VISUAL & PERFORMING ART MAGNETElementary · JONESBORO · 736 students · 19.4:1 ratio
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR JHSMiddle · JONESBORO · 732 students · 14.4:1 ratio
- NETTLETON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · JONESBORO · 546 students · 13.3:1 ratio
- FOX MEADOW ELEMENTARYElementary · JONESBORO · 483 students · 13.4:1 ratio
- UNIVERSITY HGTS. ELEM. SCHOOLElementary · JONESBORO · 483 students · 15.1:1 ratio
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIAElementary · JONESBORO · 418 students · 11.6:1 ratio
- UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL OF MEDICAL ARTSElementary · JONESBORO · 398 students · 13.7:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Books about Bay
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • CDC PLACES
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library