Waltreak, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dutch Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72833. It stands on Mitchell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.
On record in Waltreak
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 1 record
Mitchell Houselisted 1990
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gravelly quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Waltreak between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,459 acres in total. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | 12 acres | Ouachita National Forest | POTATO KNOB |
| 30 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 26 acres | Ouachita National Forest | SOUTH BLUE HOLE |
| 24 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Ouachita National Forest | WALTREAK |
| 23 August 2005 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | 989 |
| 20 August 2007 | Natural | 9.5 acres | Ouachita National Forest | CEDAR CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waltreak in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltreak | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalybeate Springs | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Shark | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Young Gravelly | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Bluffton | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Dentontown (historical) | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Fourche Valley | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Walnut Grove | 6.9 miles | 18 | |
| Briggsville | 7.1 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.
| Wikidata item Q122567320 | 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 78687. 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.








