Craighead County, AR
The federal environmental record for Craighead County (population 113,993): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
14
TRI facilities
2
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Craighead reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
14 facilities in Craighead filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 85k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACME BRICK CO JONESBORO | JONESBORO | Hydrogen fluoride, Lead compounds | 28k lb |
| RICELAND FOODS INC. - JONESBORO DIV | JONESBORO | Sulfuryl fluoride | 27k lb |
| COLSON GROUP USA LLC | JONESBORO | Zinc compounds | 11k lb |
| ABB INSTALLATION PRODUCTS INC. | JONESBORO | Zinc compounds, Zinc (fume or dust) | 10k lb |
| FRITO-LAY INC | JONESBORO | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 5k lb |
| CRANE COMPOSITES INC | JONESBORO | Styrene, Cumene hydroperoxide | 5k lb |
| NICE PAK PRODUCTS INC | JONESBORO | Certain glycol ethers | 450 lb |
| GREAT DANE | JONESBORO | Manganese, Chromium | 152 lb |
| HYTROL CONVEYOR CO INC | JONESBORO | Lead | 20 lb |
| FMH CONVEYORS AMERICAS | JONESBORO | Nickel, Chromium | 7 lb |
| CAMFIL AIR POLLUTION CONTROL | JONESBORO | Manganese | 3 lb |
| MID SOUTH SALES JONESBORO | JONESBORO | - | 0 lb |
| RAZORBACK CONCRETE 113 | JONESBORO | - | 0 lb |
| APEX TOOL GROUP | JONESBORO | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 286 tank facilities in Craighead: 159 tanks in service and 605 closed. 30 fuel releases are on record, of which 2 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Craighead as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Craighead, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- INGELS INC.JONESBORO