Arkansas · Census place 0517380

Dardanelle, Arkansas

Dardanelle is a city in Yell County, Arkansas with an estimated 4,531 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 74th largest of 185 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,531
#74 of 185 in Arkansas
Change since 2020
+0.5%
+22 people
Land area
3.6 sq mi
Density
1,245 / sq mi
State median 1,001
Orange pin: Dardanelle. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Little Rock.

Dardanelle population, 2020 to 2024

Dardanelle added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +31.

4,50920204,49520214,51320224,50020234,5312024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,517. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Dardanelle covers 3.64 square miles of land, for 1,245 people per square mile of land. The median Arkansas place of 5,000+ has 1,001, so Dardanelle is denser than the typical town.

What county Dardanelle is in

All of Dardanelle's residents live in Yell County, which had 20,134 residents in 2024. Dardanelle holds 22.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dardanelle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dardanelle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 72834. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Dardanelle is

The Census internal point of Dardanelle is at 35.226300, -93.165900. Little Rock, the capital, is 59.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Russellville, AR (29,442 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Little Rock, AR, 57.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.226300, -93.165900
DMS
35°13'34.68"N 93°09'57.24"W
UTM
15N 484903.1E 3898152.0N
Geohash
9ym8ruy8j
Plus code
86786RGM+GJ

Daylight in Dardanelle

At 35.23° N, Dardanelle gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dardanelle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Arkansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Russellville, 3.8 miles away, with 29,442 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Dardanelle, AR?

4,531 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 22 (0.5%) from 4,509 in July 2020.

What county is Dardanelle in?

Yell County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Dardanelle?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 72834.

How far is Dardanelle from Little Rock?

59.7 miles (96.0 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Dardanelle.

What is the nearest larger city to Dardanelle?

Russellville, AR, with 29,442 residents, 3.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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