Waldenburg, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Owen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72479. The Survey maps it on the Weiner quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaldenburg fell from 61 to 53 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 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 53 | -8 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1939 USGS Weiner quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Weiner quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Weiner quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Weiner quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Waldenburg between 2005 and 2006, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldenburg in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $100,000 | Lots of trees and power-lines down around the area. A shed completely destroyed. Shingles peeled off roof and a metal farm shop roof was removed. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $40,000 | Straight line winds snapped power poles northwest and southeast of Waldenburg. In the town of Waldenburg, one power line plus several billboard and business signs were knocked down. The roof off of several buildings (warehouse style) at the Farmer's Supply fertilizer plant were ripped off. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $25,000 | A grain silo was damaged near Waldenburg. A house trailer was destroyed. Numerous trees were blown down with some of the trees falling on houses. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $20,000 | Trees and power lines down just west of Waldenburg. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $15,000 | A farm shop and a vehicle were damaged. Several trees were knocked down as well. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $5,000 | A pickup truck with a camper was overturned. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $2,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | $1,000 | Some large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Waldenburg | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Waldenburg | $500 | A small F0 tornado touched down briefly in an open field. The tornado went up and down several times. Very little damage occurred. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Waldenburg | $50 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Waldenburg | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Waldenburg | - | Ping-pong ball size hail reported in town. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | - | Straight line winds knocked down six power poles and tore the roof off a Co-Op building in Waldenburg. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Waldenburg | - | A one vehicle fatal accident occurred due to heavy rain. The accident occurred near Waldenburg on Highway 14. The vehicle hydroplaned and went off the road and struck a tree. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Waldenburg | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding west of Waldenburg. Highway 14 was impassable as a result. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldenburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weiner | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| McDaniel | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Fisher | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Brushey Lake | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Uno | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Brainerd (historical) | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pitts | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| North Pitts | 9.2 miles | 10 |
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 Waldenburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q368143 | 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 58812. 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.






