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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.

Waltreak within Yell County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

31 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2001Natural12 acresOuachita National ForestPOTATO KNOB
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
11 September 2005Recreation and ceremony26 acresOuachita National ForestSOUTH BLUE HOLE
24 August 1999Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestWALTREAK
23 August 2005Natural3.0 acresOuachita National Forest989
20 August 2007Natural9.5 acresOuachita National ForestCEDAR CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1999Thunderstorm WindWaltreak-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Chalybeate Springs2.1 miles16
Shark5.2 miles16
Young Gravelly5.3 miles16
Bluffton5.5 miles16
Dentontown (historical)5.9 miles18
Fourche Valley6.1 miles16
Walnut Grove6.9 miles18
Briggsville7.1 miles13

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 Q122567320The 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.