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De Valls Bluff, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Watensaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72041. It sits by Arkapola Bluff. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

De Valls Bluff within Prairie County

On record in De Valls Bluff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

De Valls Bluff grew from 186 to 520 between 1880 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1880186
2010619
2020520-99 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of De Valls Bluff between 2000 and 2019, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 February 2007Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 October 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Valls Bluff in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2007Flash FloodDe Valls Bluff$17,000Heavy rains produced widespread flash flooding across Prairie County. Numerous secondary roads were impassible for several hours due to high water levels.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff$10,000Trees were blown down and a large limb fell and landed on a house.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff$2,000A carport was blown out into a field.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff$2,000A large tree was down along Arkansas Highway 33.
June 2021Flash FloodDe Valls Bluff-A person that routinely measures rainfall at his home near DeValls Bluff, emptied his rain gage at 4 am CST and noted the gage was overflowing by 7 am CST. His yard and nearby roads flooded very quickly after the rain started. He cannot determine the maximum rainfall, although at least 6 inches of rain fell since 4 am CST.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-A power line was blown down on Highway 33 south of De Valls Bluff blocking all lanes.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-Scattered wind damage was near and around De Valls Bluff. Primary damage was broken power poles.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-A tree was downed on Highway 302 East.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-A tree was downed on Highway 302 East.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-Power lines were blown down.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 2018HailDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
April 2011HailDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
February 2000HailDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
April 1999HailDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindDe Valls Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mesa1.9 miles17
Hallsville2.9 miles17
Peppers Lake3.2 miles15
Thomas (historical)3.5 miles17
Biscoe3.8 miles17
Yuma (historical)4.1 miles17
Peppers Landing4.7 miles15
Brasfield5.3 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on De Valls BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580718The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76762. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.