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Walcott, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crowley's Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. The Survey maps it on the Walcott quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Walcott within Greene County

On record in Walcott

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Walcott between 1999 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Walcott: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
UnkIronOccurrence
Dwyer Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walcott in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2018Thunderstorm WindWalcott$75,000Roofs were blown off two barns near Highway 168 and County Road 310.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindWalcott$50,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott$10,000A barn was damaged and car windows were blown out.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Walcott$10,000A tornado touched down just south of Walcott. A mobile home was overturned and several large trees were snapped off.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWalcott$5,000Trees blocking the road at Highways 141 and 358.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWalcott$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. One tree fell onto a house.
January 2000HailWalcott$750Hail ranged in size from nickle in Walcott to golfball just west of Paragould.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWalcott$500A few trees were knocked down.
March 1995HailWalcott$100no account filed
June 2001HailWalcott$50no account filed
October 2004HailWalcott$10no account filed
June 2001HailWalcott$10no account filed
April 2022HailWalcott-Golf ball-sized hail fell in Walcott.
May 2018Flash FloodWalcott-State Road 141 closed near Walcott due to flooding.
June 2011HailWalcott-Quarter size hail fell on Highway 141 just south of Walcott.
June 2010Flash FloodWalcott-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Finch. Several roads were flooded as a result.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Straight line winds blew trees down 2-3 miles north of the A+P Food Store, southwest of Walcott.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindWalcott-A trained spotter estimated the winds between 60 and 70 mph in Lorado.
May 2025HailWalcott-no account filed
March 2024HailWalcott-no account filed
March 2024HailWalcott-no account filed
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWalcott-no account filed
March 1995HailWalcott-no account filed
June 1994HailWalcott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Ebenezer1.5 miles14
Finch3.3 miles14
Stanford3.7 miles14
Pine Knot4.0 miles15
Light4.5 miles14
Lorado4.5 miles10
Crowley4.6 miles15
Commissary (historical)4.7 miles14

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 WalcottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961338The 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 58811. 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.