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Craighead -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 82148
Housing Units (2000): 35133
Land area (2000): 710.839571 sq. miles (1841.065959 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.136330 sq. miles (5.533069 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 712.975901 sq. miles (1846.599028 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.828198 N, 90.631993 W
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Craighead

Craighead may refer to:

Surname
  • Alexander Craighead (1705–1766), Scots-Irish American preacher
  • Alison Craighead (born 1971), London-based visual artist
  • Brander Craighead (born 1990), Canadian football player
  • David Craighead (1924–2012), American organist
  • David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT FRSE PC (born 1938), former first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
  • Harold Craighead, American professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
  • Jane Elizabeth Sophia Engelhard Craighead, wife of Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., American businessman
  • John Craighead (born 1971), retired professional ice hockey right winger
  • Thomas Craighead (1798–1862), American politician and lawyer from the state of Arkansas
  • Frank and John Craighead, American twins,(b.1916, Frank (d.2001), noted naturalists and conservationists
Middle name
  • George Craighead Cabell (1836–1906), nineteenth-century congressman, lawyer and editor from Virginia
  • Jean Craighead George (1919–2012), American author of more than one hundred books for children and young adults
Locations
  • Craighead County, Arkansas, county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas
  • Craighead Caverns, extensive cave system located in Sweetwater, Tennessee
  • Craighead-Jackson House, historic two-story, brick house in Knoxville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee
Maritime
  • USS Craighead (AK-175), Alamosa-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II

Usage examples of "craighead".

But Val Price and Scott Davidson also knew that Craighead County was one of the most religiously conservative places in the state, and that Jonesboro, the county seat, was home to several large and powerful churches, almost all of them housing fundamentalist Christian congregations.

Tosh had been a deputy sheriff in Craighead County when the West Memphis murders occurred, and in the months after the arrests, he’.