Wabbaseka, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dunnington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72175. The Survey maps it on the Altheimer quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.
On record in Wabbaseka
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Wabbaseka Methodist Episcopal Church, Southlisted 2002 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWabbaseka fell from 255 to 180 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 | 255 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -75 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1935 USGS Altheimer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Altheimer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wabbaseka between 2001 and 2013, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wabbaseka: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O Gilsby Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 |
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabbaseka in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabbaseka | $15,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabbaseka | - | Power outages occurred because of thunderstorm wind damage. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabbaseka | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabbaseka | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Wabbaseka | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wabbaseka | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Wabbaseka | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diantha (historical) | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Newtown | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Altheimer | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Kratnek (historical) | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Gethsemane | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Ellison | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Haywood | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Rob Roy | 7.7 miles | 13 |
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 Wabbaseka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79632 | 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 78663. 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.







