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Dyess

Dyess is a town in , , United States. Founded as Dyess Colony in 1934 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration as part of the Roosevelt administration's agricultural relief and rehabilitation program, it was the largest agrarian community established by the U.S. during the Great Depression.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 481 residents
  • Description: town in Arkansas, United States
  • Also known as: “Dyess Colony”, “Dyess, AR”, “Dyess, Ark.”, and “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Postal code: 72330

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bassett.

Hamlet
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is a town in , , United States. The population was 124 at the 2020 census, down from 173 in 2010. is situated 6 miles southeast of Dyess.

Dyess

Latitude
35.5898° or 35° 35′ 23″ north
Longitude
-90.21343° or 90° 12′ 48″ west
Population
481
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
Open location code
867FHQQP+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151874693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4109346
Wiki­data ID
Q2660569
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Dyess” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دايسس”
  • Basque: “Dyess”
  • Cebuano: “Dyess”
  • Chechen: “Дайесс”
  • Chinese: “Dyess”
  • Chinese: “戴斯”
  • Dutch: “Dyess”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دايسس”
  • French: “Dyess”
  • German: “Dyess”
  • Gilaki: “دیس”
  • Hungarian: “Dyess”
  • Indonesian: “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Indonesian: “Dyess”
  • Italian: “Dyess”
  • Ladin: “Dyess”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dyess”
  • Newari: “डाइरेस (आर्कान्सः)”
  • Newari: “डाइरेस, आर्कान्सः”
  • Newari: “डाइरेस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dyess”
  • Norwegian: “Dyess”
  • Polish: “Dyess”
  • Portuguese: “Dyess”
  • Russian: “Дайесс”
  • Serbian: “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Serbian: “Dyess”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dyess”
  • Slovenian: “Dyess”
  • Spanish: “Dyess”
  • Talysh: “Dajess”
  • Tatar: “Даэсс”
  • Ukrainian: “Даєсс”
  • Ukrainian: “Дайесс”
  • Uzbek: “Dyess”
  • Uzbek: “Десс”
  • Vietnamese: “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Vietnamese: “Dyess”
  • Welsh: “Dyess, Arkansas”
  • Welsh: “Dyess”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dyess City Hall and Dyess Colony Administration Building.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dyess”. Photo: Dr. Blazer, CC BY-SA 4.0.