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.
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
Castleberry Hotellisted 2007
De Valls Bluff Waterworkslisted 2007
Population over time
3 figuresDe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 186 | |
| 2010 | 619 | |
| 2020 | 520 | -99 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 February 2007 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | De Valls Bluff | $17,000 | Heavy rains produced widespread flash flooding across Prairie County. Numerous secondary roads were impassible for several hours due to high water levels. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | $10,000 | Trees were blown down and a large limb fell and landed on a house. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew trees down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | $2,000 | A carport was blown out into a field. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | $2,000 | A large tree was down along Arkansas Highway 33. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | De 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | A power line was blown down on Highway 33 south of De Valls Bluff blocking all lanes. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | Scattered wind damage was near and around De Valls Bluff. Primary damage was broken power poles. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | A tree was downed on Highway 302 East. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | A tree was downed on Highway 302 East. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| April 2018 | Hail | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Valls Bluff | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hallsville | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Peppers Lake | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Thomas (historical) | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Biscoe | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Yuma (historical) | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Peppers Landing | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Brasfield | 5.3 miles | 17 |
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 Bluff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2580718 | The 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.











