{{Short description|Ghost town in Arkansas}} {{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} '''Sneed''' is a ghost town in Jackson County, Arkansas, United States.

==History== {{original research|date=May 2018}}

The namesake of the town, William Sneed, moved with his family from Illinois and settled in the area in which the town would eventually be founded following the Civil War.<!--PLEASE NOTE: This reference is original research based on a published email--><ref>{{cite web | last = Tolbert | first = Shirley | title = SNEED-L Archives | publisher = Rootsweb | date = January 12, 2003 | url = http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SNEED/2003-01/1042487435}}</ref>

Sneed Church and Sneed School were located next to each other in this rural farm community.

===1929 tornado=== {{main|Sneed Tornado}}

thumb|right|Some residents of Sneed hid in this storm cellar.<ref name="NWS">{{cite web | title = The F5 Tornado of April 10, 1929 | publisher = National Weather Service | date = May 14, 2013 | url = http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/?n=tor041029a.htm}}</ref> In the late afternoon of April 10, 1929, an F5 tornado, the highest rating on the Fujita scale, struck northern Jackson County&mdash;the only tornado of this intensity ever documented in Arkansas. Many residents saw the tornado approach and took shelter in storm cellars, under a road bridge, in a barn, or in a chicken house.

The tornado is believed to have begun about {{convert|3|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of Batesville in Independence County. It then crossed into Jackson County in the Black River bottoms, likely north of Centerville. The tornado's maximum intensity was reached near Pleasant Valley (also known locally as Possum Trot), and then moved {{convert|2|mi|km|abbr=on}} east to Sneed. Both Pleasant Valley and Sneed were almost completely destroyed by what witnesses described as a {{convert|0.5|mi|km|abbr=on}} wide tornado. The tornado began to weaken after it passed and then moved southeast of Alicia.

Roads were blocked by large timbers and other debris, and the tornado's heavy rains made them very muddy, hindering rescue efforts. The death toll was listed at 23, and many others were seriously injured.<ref name="NWS"/> A makeshift morgue was set up in Swifton.<!--PLEASE NOTE: This reference is original research based on a published email--><ref>{{cite web | last = Miller | first = Paula | title = SNEED-L Archives | publisher = Rootsweb | url = http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SNEED/2003-01/1042487435| accessdate = October 31, 2013}}</ref>

All that remains today of Sneed is a clearing where the school and church formerly stood.

==See also== *List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes *List of ghost towns in Arkansas

==References== <references /> {{Jackson County, Arkansas}}

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Category:Ghost towns in Arkansas Category:Geography of Jackson County, Arkansas Category:Natural disaster ghost towns

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