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Hackett, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72937. It stands on Hackett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hackett quadrangle. 784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Hackett within Sebastian County

On record in Hackett

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hackett fell from 812 to 784 between 2010 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
2010812
2020784-28 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Hackett between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,193 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 were 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Smoking15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hackett: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ibison PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Building Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hamilton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rock Island StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hackett in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
June 2009HailHackett$100,000no account filed
March 2006HailHackett$60,000Hail up to baseball size covered the ground.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHackett$1,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindHackett$100no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackett-Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a tree on Highway 45.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees between Bonanza and Hackett.
December 2015FloodHackett-Henderson Street in Hackett was closed due to high water from Big Branch Creek.
November 2015Flash FloodHackett-Portions of Highway 10 were flooded between Hackett and Highway 71.
May 2015Flash FloodHackett-The creek was flooded just downstream of the James Fork Bridge on Highway 45 at Slaytonville Road near Hackett.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHackett-At 804 PM, there was a HAM radio operator reported 60 mph winds 4 miles east of Hackett. At 805 PM, another HAM radio operator reported 65 mph winds in Excelsior.
May 1999HailHackett-Location: the greater Hackett/Bonanza area
January 1999HailHackett-The Sebastian County Sheriffs Office reported quarter-sized hail in Hackett, while the general public reported golfball-sized hail.
May 1998HailHackett-Nickel-sized hail covered the ground
April 2026HailHackett-no account filed
October 2022HailHackett-no account filed
August 2006HailHackett-no account filed
March 2004HailHackett-no account filed
June 2004HailHackett-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
May 2003HailHackett-no account filed
June 2001HailHackett-no account filed
May 2000HailHackett-no account filed
May 2000HailHackett-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
April 1998HailHackett-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
March 1997HailHackett-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Doubleday (historical)1.5 miles23
Jenson1.6 miles23
Bonanza3.5 miles23
Excelsior5.2 miles22
Enterprise5.3 miles25
White Bluff5.5 miles25
Old Jenny Lind5.6 miles22
Slaytonville5.7 miles23

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 HackettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79590The 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 77101. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.