Biggers and Peach Orchard are not too far apart, although to get from one to the other you would have to backtrack to Pocahontas and then take U.S. Highway 62 or Arkansas Highways 304 and 90, depending on whether you started from Biggers or Peach Orchard.
Or, you could take the shorter route, on foot or horseback, through the woods and over the Black River. Here is a satellite image, which gives an idea of the distance and terrain involved:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2767914,-90.7164016,22582m/data=!3m1!1e3
Biggers is in Randolph County; Peach Orchard is part of Clay County. The latest census data at Wikipedia shows Biggers’ 2000 population at 355, while Peach Orchard’s 2010 population was 135. Biggers is 95.5% white; Peach Orchard’s population is about 97.5% white. Not unusual for that part of Arkansas.
In Biggers, 17.3% of the total population and 13.5% of families live below the poverty line. In Peach Orchard, things are not quite as good, financially, with 24.5% of families and 18.3% of the total population below the Federal Government’s official poverty line.
Biggers’ largest population was 466 in 1930. Peach Orchard had 484 residents in 1920.
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says the area of Peach Orchard was explored and, to a very limited extent, settled by French before the 1903 Louisiana Purchase. The town was incorporated in 1910.
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Sunday, July 2, 2017
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The government needs to look at Datto, Arkansas, Zip Code 72424
Datto is in Clay County, which touches Missouri with its northern and eastern boundaries.
The 2010 census counted 100 people in Datto, an increase of three from the previous census.
Datto demographics are completely out of synch with the rest of the United States, racially and economically.
Datto is 100% white. No families and 8% of the total population is below the Federal poverty line. Again, no families. Also, no one under age 18 lives below the poverty line. However, 41.2% of citizens older than 64 are making do below the poverty line.
For every 100 women over age 18, there were 105.4 men. Where or what that 40% man was, reports do not say.
IN 1930, Datto had 275 people. The Great Depression took its toll on quite a few small towns, and by 1940 the population was 198.
More on Datto here:
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7121
Datto is an interesting kind of place because it is so out there, yet for a time was a place people moved to.
A Coldwell-Banker site says 57% of Datto residents are married, and 10% are families with children. Bestplaces.net says 81.7% of residents are married.
Some figures you have to wonder about, how accurate the government is.
One day in Arkansas, a woman came into the Girls Scout office to register her daughter. She told my wife the girl was 8 years old. She said, “We don’t have a birth certificate. And don’t even think about asking for a Social Security number.”
(I just accessed an Arkansas state government site, which said it had information on Datto, but I figured it was just an automatic listing, like for every town and city and county in the state. I was right; there was no information on Datto. The site did request that I allow arkansas.gov to track my physical location. On that kind of thing, I’m with the “And don’t even think about asking …” mother.)
The 2010 census counted 100 people in Datto, an increase of three from the previous census.
Datto demographics are completely out of synch with the rest of the United States, racially and economically.
Datto is 100% white. No families and 8% of the total population is below the Federal poverty line. Again, no families. Also, no one under age 18 lives below the poverty line. However, 41.2% of citizens older than 64 are making do below the poverty line.
For every 100 women over age 18, there were 105.4 men. Where or what that 40% man was, reports do not say.
IN 1930, Datto had 275 people. The Great Depression took its toll on quite a few small towns, and by 1940 the population was 198.
More on Datto here:
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7121
Datto is an interesting kind of place because it is so out there, yet for a time was a place people moved to.
A Coldwell-Banker site says 57% of Datto residents are married, and 10% are families with children. Bestplaces.net says 81.7% of residents are married.
Some figures you have to wonder about, how accurate the government is.
One day in Arkansas, a woman came into the Girls Scout office to register her daughter. She told my wife the girl was 8 years old. She said, “We don’t have a birth certificate. And don’t even think about asking for a Social Security number.”
(I just accessed an Arkansas state government site, which said it had information on Datto, but I figured it was just an automatic listing, like for every town and city and county in the state. I was right; there was no information on Datto. The site did request that I allow arkansas.gov to track my physical location. On that kind of thing, I’m with the “And don’t even think about asking …” mother.)
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