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Traskwood, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Traskwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72167. The Survey maps it on the Traskwood quadrangle. 495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Traskwood within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

Traskwood fell from 518 to 495 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
2010518
2020495-23 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

289 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Traskwood between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,387 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 135 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
Arson/incendiarism135
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2004Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Arson/incendiarism31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 Traskwood: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium. 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
Wilcox Group KaolinAluminum, Iron, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traskwood in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 3 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
September 1996Tornado (F2)Traskwood$100,000no account filed
September 2008Tornado (EF1)Traskwood$70,000This tornado moved out of Hot Spring County, east-northeast of Glen Rose, and entered Saline County, northwest of Traskwood. Many trees were blown down, one of which fell on a house. The tornado moved through the Crossroads community, which had been hit by a tornado on April 3, 2008.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindTraskwood$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a cable tower. Several large trees were also knocked down.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Traskwood$40,000Numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped. A barn was destroyed, and the barn's roof was thrown more than 100 yards. Several houses were missing shingles, and one of the houses was missing nearly 50% of its shingles.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindTraskwood$5,000Some trees were blown down.
March 2026HailTraskwood-Quarter-sized hail fell near the community of Traskwood.
June 2023HailTraskwood-Golf ball sized hail fell at Holly Ridge Road in Traskwood.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-A tree was blown down onto Arkansas Highway 229.
February 2020Flash FloodTraskwood-Due to extensive flooding, several roads in Saline County were closed near Traskwood and Tull and up to the Grant County line. Water was moving swiftly over some roads.
February 2018Flash FloodTraskwood-Several roads were reported to be underwater.
November 2015Flash FloodTraskwood-A swift water rescue saved 4 people near Hwy 291 west of the Tull Bridge. Hwy 291 was closed due to high water.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and large limbs.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-Several trees were knocked down 3 miles southeast of Traskwood.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
March 2004HailTraskwood-no account filed
April 2001HailTraskwood-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-no account filed
August 1999HailTraskwood-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindTraskwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Cunningham (historical)2.3 miles10
Opitz (historical)2.7 miles10
Haskell3.7 miles19
Fairplay (historical)5.9 miles19
Klondike (historical)6.7 miles19
Shaw7.0 miles9
Slocomb (historical)7.1 miles19
Detonti8.4 miles9

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 TraskwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2470454The 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 58757. 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.