Huttig, Arkansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. The Survey maps it on the Huttig quadrangle. 448 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 102 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHuttig fell from 731 to 448 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 731 | |
| 2010 | 597 | -134 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 448 | -149 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1934 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Huttig quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
60 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Huttig between 1995 and 2017, burning about 698 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge | SKIDDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huttig in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Huttig | $20,000 | An EF0 tornado touched down in Union County, Arkansas in the town of Huttig, Arkansas. The tornado tracked for approximately 0.50 miles. Several trees and large branches were snapped and a house in Huttig sustained roof damage. |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Huttig | $2,500 | Tornado tracked across mostly unpopulated and wooded region passing across a few homes in southeast Felsenthal. Only minor roof damage occurred to homes. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huttig | - | Large tree limbs were blown down in Huttig. |
| January 2017 | Hail | Huttig | - | Quarter size hail fell for several minutes in Huttig. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huttig | - | Trees were downed. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Huttig | - | A weak supercell developed within a multicellular squall line which moved east northeast across the area. Damage path consisted of numerous snapped and fallen small trees. The tornado moved through a heavily wooded region with no structures. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Huttig | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Huttig | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Huttig | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Huttig | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Huttig | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felsenthal | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Dollar Junction | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Bolding | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Old Lapile | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Lapile | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Victoria | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Union | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| New Union | 9.0 miles | 19 |
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 Huttig | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q80202 | 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 77345. 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.










