Redfield, Arkansas

For people with the surname, see Redfield (surname).

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Redfield, Arkansas

| settlement_type = City

| official_name = City of Redfield

| image_skyline = Redfield, Arkansas montage, 2021-09-13, TJ 01.jpg

| imagesize = 280px

| image_caption = Clockwise from top: The Old Redfield School, Redfield City Hall, the Dollarway Road, Redfield Gymnasium, and the Lone Star Baptist Church

| image_map = Jefferson County Arkansas Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Redfield Highlighted 0558580.svg

| mapsize = 250x200px

| map_caption = Location in Jefferson County and Arkansas

| pushpin_map = USA

| pushpin_label = Redfield

| pushpin_relief = yes

| pushpin_label_position = left

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the United States

| coordinates = {{coord|34|26|34|N|92|11|04|W|region:US-AR_type:city|format=dms|display=inline}}

| subdivision_name = {{Flagu|United States}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Arkansas}}

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Jefferson

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name3 = Barraque

| subdivision_type3 = Township

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = {{start date|1880|12|20}}

| established_title1 = Incorporated

| established_date1 = {{start date|1898|10|18}}

| founder = James K. Brodie

| named_for = Jared E. Redfield

| government_footnotes ={{cite web|author=|title=Redfield|website=Arkansas Municipal League|url=https://portal.arkansas.gov?agency=Redfield|access-date=January 16, 2019}}

| government_type = Mayor–Council

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Roben Brooks

| leader_party = I

| leader_title1 = Council

| leader_name1 = City Council

| unit_pref = Imperial

| area_footnotes ={{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_05.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 29, 2021}}

| area_total_km2 = 8.15

| area_total_sq_mi = 3.148

| area_land_km2 = 8.01

| area_land_sq_mi = 3.094

| area_water_km2 = 0.14

| area_water_sq_mi = 0.054

| elevation_ft = 302

| elevation_footnotes ={{GNIS|58477}}

| population_as_of = 2020

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 1505

| population_density_sq_mi = 486.43

| pop_est_as_of =

| pop_est_footnotes =

| population_est =

| population_density_km2 = 187.84

| timezone = CST

| utc_offset = –6

| timezone_DST = CDT

| utc_offset_DST = –5

| postal_code_type = ZIP code

| postal_code = 72132

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = 501

| blank_name = FIPS code

| blank_info = {{FIPS|05|58580}}

| blank1_name = GNIS feature ID

| blank1_info = {{GNIS4|58477}}, {{GNIS4|2404603}}

| blank2_name = Highways

| blank2_info = {{Unbulleted list|20px Interstate 530|20px U.S. Highway 65|20px Highway 46|20px Highway 365}}

| blank3_name = Major airport

| blank3_info = Clinton National Airport (LIT)

| website = {{URL|redfieldar.com}}

}}

Redfield, officially the City of Redfield,{{Citation |author= |title=Municipal Code: A Code of the General Ordinances of the city of Redfield |publication-place=North Little Rock |publisher=Arkansas Municipal League |date=July 2010 |page=2}} is a small city in Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Located about {{convert|24|mi|km}} southeast of Little Rock,{{cite web |author=|title=U.S. Census website |website=United States Census Bureau|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|access-date=May 8, 2016}} the city is part of the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,505 in the 2020 census.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US0533190| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Redfield city, Arkansas| work=American Factfinder| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=April 19, 2017}}{{dead link|bot=medic|date=April 2020}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

What is now Redfield was formerly part of the Quapaw Nation.{{cite report |author=J. W. Powell |author-link=John Wesley Powell |date=1899 |title=Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Part 2 |url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu182smit |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |at=pp. [https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu182smit/page/691/mode/1up 691], [https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu182smit/page/707/mode/1up 707], [https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu182smit/page/n510/mode/1up Plate CXII] |oclc=855519214 |access-date=September 29, 2023 |via=Internet Archive}} Founded in 1880 by James K. Brodie, a 19th-century businessman; it was named for Jared E. Redfield, president of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway. It is home to two U.S. historic preservation districts.

==History==

File:West James Avenue Bridge.jpg – listed on NRHP May 18, 1995]]

Following the arrival of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway,{{cite book |author=|title=Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas: Full Description|url=https://archive.org/stream/pinebluffjeffers00jeffer|edition=World's Fair|publisher=Jefferson County Bureau of Agriculture, Manufactures and Immigration|date=May 1893|page=13|lccn=25000261|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Clarence|date=August 3, 1962|title=Redfield—Made by a Railroad|newspaper=The Pine Bluff Commercial|location=Pine Bluff, Arkansas}}{{cite news|author=|title=Happy Birthday, City of Redfield!|newspaper=The Redfield Update|location=Redfield, Arkansas|date=October 1, 1998}} also known as the "Arkansas Valley Route," a small settlement grew up around the new station named for company president Jared E. Redfield of Essex, Connecticut.{{cite book|author=|title=Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalhistpjlf00good|location=Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis|publisher=Goodspeed Publishing Co.|date=1889|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalhistpjlf00good/page/134/mode/2up 134], 137|lccn=01001243|ol=24190554M|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news|author=|title=Obituary Notes|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/10/22/109324106.pdf|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 22, 1889|format=PDF|access-date=May 8, 2017}} Founded on December 20, 1880,{{Citation|author=|title=Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28|publisher=National Archives|place=Washington, D.C.}} Redfield was incorporated by the Jefferson county court on October 18, 1898.{{cite book|author=|title=Jefferson County, Arkansas, Deed Book 34|location=Pine Bluff, Arkansas|publisher=Jefferson County (Ark.) Court|date=n.d.|page=583}}

Six local properties have been added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): Dollarway Road (1974), West James Street Overpass (1995), Lone Star Baptist Church (2005), Redfield School Historic District (2014), and Redfield Commercial Historic District (2023).

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{convert|3.148|sqmi|km2}}, of which, {{convert|3.094|sqmi|km2}} of it is land and 0.37% is water.

Demographics

{{US Census population

|1890= 400

|1900= 333

|1910= 278

|1920= 296

|1930= 350

|1940= 339

|1950= 291

|1960= 242

|1970= 277

|1980= 745

|1990= 1082

|2000= 1157

|2010= 1297

|2020= 1505

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=November 26, 2021}}

}}

=2020 census=

class="wikitable"

|+Redfield racial composition{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US0558580&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 13, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}

!Race

!Num.

!Perc.

White (non-Hispanic)

|1,163

|77.28%

Black or African American (non-Hispanic)

|213

|14.15%

Native American

|0.33%

Asian

|13

|0.86%

Pacific Islander

|0.2%

Other/Mixed

|64

|4.25%

Hispanic or Latino

|44

|2.92%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,505 people, 640 households, and 428 families residing in the city.

=2010 census=

As of the census of 2010, there were 1,297 people, 525 households and 369 families residing in the city. There were 581 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 91.7% White, 4.8% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0% Pacific Islander, 0.6% from other races and 2.3% from two or more races. 1.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 525 households, out of which 29.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.2% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.95. The median age was 38.5 years.

Arts and culture

The Pine Bluff and Jefferson County Library System operates the public library, an about {{convert|5500|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} library building, which opened in 1999."[http://www.pineblufflibrary.org/our-libraries/redfield/ Redfield Public Library]." Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Library System. Retrieved on August 2, 2017.

Government

The Redfield City Council comprises the mayor of Redfield and six aldermen. The council determines the strategic direction and policies for the municipality and the Mayor in turn appoints staff to implement those policies and administer and manage the municipal services. Private citizens are welcome to attend the council meetings which are held in the Council Chamber of the City Hall at 212 North Brodie Street, Redfield, on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

Education

Public education in northwest Jefferson county is administered by the White Hall School District."[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st05_ar/c05069_jefferson/DC10SD_C05069_001.pdf SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Jefferson County, AR]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. The school district manages two secondary schools (White Hall High School and White Hall Middle School) and four elementary schools.{{cite web |url=http://whitehallsd.org/schools.cfm |title=Schools |author= |publisher=SchoolWorld |date=n.d. |website=White Hall School District |access-date=August 10, 2017}} The M. A. Hardin Elementary School is located in Redfield.{{cite web |url=http://whitehallsd.org/Hardin.cfm |title=Hardin Elementary |author= |publisher=SchoolWorld |date=n.d. |website=White Hall School District |access-date=August 10, 2017}}

Infrastructure

Redfield is on Highway 365 linking Pine Bluff and Little Rock, as well as Highway 46, linking it to Sheridan. It is also on Interstate 530 (via Highway 46).{{Cite map|author=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|author-link=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|date=March 2016|title=Map of Redfield, Jefferson County, Arkansas|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/cities/redfield_city.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=May 7, 2016}}

==See also==

References

External links

{{official website}}
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{{Ballotpedia}}
[https://www.pineblufflibrary.org/our-libraries/redfield/ Redfield Public Library] at the Pine Bluff and Jefferson County Library System

{{Geographic location

|Northwest = Landmark — East End

|North = Hensley — Woodson — Wrightsville — Sweet Home

|Northeast = Arkansas River
Keo — England

|West =

|Centre = Redfield

|East = Arkansas River

|Southwest = Sheridan

|South =

|Southeast = Pine Bluff Arsenal — White Hall
Arkansas River
Sherrill

}}

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