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Brinkley
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city in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Monroe
- Total
- 6.14 sq mi (15.91 km )
- Land
- 5.69 sq mi (14.73 km )
- Water
- 0.46 sq mi (1.18 km )
- Elevation
- 200 ft (61 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 2,468
- Density
- 474.9/sq mi (183.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 05-08950
- Website
- www .brinkleyark .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
local city portal
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Brinkley
- Population
- 2700
- Area
- 15.407555
- Elevation
- 64
- Official website
- www.brinkleyar.com
- Image
- Brinkley, AR 007.jpg
- Households
- 1232
- Dialing code
- 870
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- Commons category
- Brinkley, Arkansas
- postal code
- 72021
- inception
- 1852-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 7.6749
- P8168
- Deon Hemmings
- water area
- 1.182508
- per capita income
- 21270
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Article
Brinkley is the most populous city in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,700, down from 3,188 in 2010.
Located within the Arkansas Delta, Brinkley was founded as a railroad town in 1872. The city has historically been a transportation and agricultural center in the region, more recently developing a reputation for outdoors recreation and the ivory-billed woodpecker. Birding has become important to the city and region following the purported discovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, a species thought to be extinct 60 years earlier.