Briggsville, Arkansas

Briggsville, Arkansas
Unincorporated community
Briggsville, Arkansas
Briggsville, Arkansas
Coordinates: 34°56′02″N 93°29′40″W / 34.93389°N 93.49444°W / 34.93389; -93.49444Coordinates: 34°56′02″N 93°29′40″W / 34.93389°N 93.49444°W / 34.93389; -93.49444
Country United States
State Arkansas
County Yell
Elevation 440 ft (130 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code 72828
Area code(s) 479
GNIS feature ID 81846[1]

Briggsville is an unincorporated community in Yell County, Arkansas, United States. Briggsville is located on Arkansas Highway 28, 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of Plainview. Briggsville has a post office with ZIP code 72828.[2]

Briggsville is the hometown of actor Jacob Lofland.

At a Democratic Party rally in Russellville, Arkansas in 1976, Bill Clinton spoke of "the breathtaking beauty of our Arkansas spring", and then listed several towns including Briggsville; "I know them all, and they are home to me because of you".[3]

Education

Two Rivers School District serves the area. It operates two schools: Two Rivers Elementary School and Two Rivers High School.

Previously it was assigned to the Fourche Valley School, a K-12 school,[4] operated by the Fourche Valley School District. On July 1, 2004, the Fourche Valley district merged into the Two Rivers district.[5] The merged district continued to operate the Fourche Valley School until 2009, when the majority of the members of the district board voted to close it.[6] Students were reassigned to Plainview-Rover Elementary School and Plainview-Rover High School.[7] In 2010 the latter closed due to the opening of the consolidated Two Rivers High School,[8] and the Plainview-Rover elementary consolidated into Two Rivers Elementary in 2012.[9]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Briggsville, Arkansas
  2. ↑ ZIP Code Lookup Archived September 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Smith, Stephen A. (1996). "The Guardian of the People's Interest". Preface to the Presidency: Selected Speeches of Bill Clinton, 1974-1992. Stephen A. Smith.
  4. ↑ "Faculty and Staff." Fourche Valley School. October 10, 2006. Retrieved on October 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on October 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Arkansas Cases Challenge School and District Consolidation". The Rural School and Community Trust. 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Parents seek halt in school closings; cite long bus rides". Arkansas Democrat Gazette. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  8. ↑ Zilk, Caroline (February 7, 2010). "Two become one: Two Rivers High School still set To open in fall". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  9. ↑ "State Required Information." Plainview-Rover School District. April 14, 2013. Retrieved on October 24, 2017. See the "ACSIP Plans " section, note the years
First Lieutenant Daniel W. Melton was a soldier in the Civil War, and is interred at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Briggsville


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