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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.

Waldenburg within Poinsett County

Population over time

2 figures

Waldenburg 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.

YearPeople Change
201061
202053-8 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2005

Regional 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/incendiarism3

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
23 July 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 March 2005Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$100,000Lots 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 2013Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$40,000Straight 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 2003Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$25,000A 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 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$20,000Trees and power lines down just west of Waldenburg.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$15,000A farm shop and a vehicle were damaged. Several trees were knocked down as well.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$5,000A pickup truck with a camper was overturned.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$2,000A few trees were knocked down.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg$1,000Some large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2006HailWaldenburg$1,000no account filed
March 1993Tornado (F0)Waldenburg$500A small F0 tornado touched down briefly in an open field. The tornado went up and down several times. Very little damage occurred.
April 2001HailWaldenburg$50no account filed
March 2005HailWaldenburg$10no account filed
June 2018HailWaldenburg-Ping-pong ball size hail reported in town.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg-Straight line winds knocked down six power poles and tore the roof off a Co-Op building in Waldenburg.
April 2009Heavy RainWaldenburg-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 2009Flash FloodWaldenburg-Heavy rain produced flash flooding west of Waldenburg. Highway 14 was impassable as a result.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWaldenburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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
Weiner4.2 miles12
McDaniel5.5 miles12
Fisher5.5 miles12
Brushey Lake5.6 miles12
Uno7.6 miles10
Brainerd (historical)8.8 miles12
Pitts9.1 miles10
North Pitts9.2 miles10

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 WaldenburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q368143The 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.