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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.

Bay city overview:
Name:	Bay city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Arkansas
County:	Craighead County
Elevation:	230 ft (70 m)
Total Area:	3.10 sq mi (8.02 km²)
Land Area:	3.09 sq mi (8.00 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.02 km²)
Total Population:	1,876
Population Density:	607.51/sq mi (234.59/km²)
ZIP code:	72411
Area code:	870
FIPS code:	0504180
GNISfeature ID:	0076250
Website:	cityofbay.org

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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 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 Bay 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

Bay Road Map

Bay city Satellite Map

Geography

Bay is located in the Arkansas Delta at 35°44′43″N 90°33′46″W / 35.74528°N 90.56278°W / 35.74528; -90.56278 (35.745157, -90.562777). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.5 km), 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.