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.
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
Hackett Creek Bridgelisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresHackett 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 812 | |
| 2020 | 784 | -28 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1887 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
83 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Smoking | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2004 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2011 | Smoking | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibison Pit | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Building Stone Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hamilton Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rock Island Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Hail | Hackett | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Hackett | $60,000 | Hail up to baseball size covered the ground. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines. |
| February 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | $100 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a road. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a tree on Highway 45. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees between Bonanza and Hackett. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Hackett | - | Henderson Street in Hackett was closed due to high water from Big Branch Creek. |
| November 2015 | Flash Flood | Hackett | - | Portions of Highway 10 were flooded between Hackett and Highway 71. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Hackett | - | The creek was flooded just downstream of the James Fork Bridge on Highway 45 at Slaytonville Road near Hackett. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | 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 1999 | Hail | Hackett | - | Location: the greater Hackett/Bonanza area |
| January 1999 | Hail | Hackett | - | The Sebastian County Sheriffs Office reported quarter-sized hail in Hackett, while the general public reported golfball-sized hail. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hackett | - | Nickel-sized hail covered the ground |
| April 2026 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| October 2022 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Hackett | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hackett | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doubleday (historical) | 1.5 miles | 23 | |
| Jenson | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Bonanza | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Excelsior | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Enterprise | 5.3 miles | 25 | |
| White Bluff | 5.5 miles | 25 | |
| Old Jenny Lind | 5.6 miles | 22 | |
| Slaytonville | 5.7 miles | 23 |
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 Hackett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79590 | 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 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.











