Official Name: | Briggsville, Arkansas |
Pushpin Map: | Arkansas#USA |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Arkansas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Yell |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 440 |
Coordinates: | 34.9339°N -93.4944°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 72828 |
Area Code: | 479 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 81846 |
Briggsville is an unincorporated community in Yell County, Arkansas, United States. Briggsville is located on Arkansas Highway 28, 12miles west-southwest of Plainview. Briggsville has a post office with ZIP code 72828.[1]
In 2004 Alan Richard of Education Week wrote that the only notable features of Briggsville were the highway, some of its houses, and the Fourche Valley School.[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]
Two Rivers School District serves the area.[4] [5] 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,[6] operated by the Fourche Valley School District. On July 1, 2004, the Fourche Valley district merged into the Two Rivers district.[7] 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.[8] Students were reassigned to Plainview-Rover Elementary School and Plainview-Rover High School.[9] In 2010 the latter closed due to the opening of the consolidated Two Rivers High School,[10] and the Plainview-Rover elementary consolidated into Two Rivers Elementary in 2012.[11]