Wheatley, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wheatley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72392. The Survey maps it on the Wheatley quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.
On record in Wheatley
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Smith Houselisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWheatley fell from 355 to 279 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 | 355 | |
| 2020 | 279 | -76 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1940 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Wheatley quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wheatley between 1997 and 2018, burning about 80 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 February 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 November 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 November 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatley in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 13 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Wheatley | 9 hurt, $500,000 | The tornado moved into the extreme southwest corner of St. Francis county from Monroe county. It touched down several times and then lifted back into the air. The most severe damage occurred in and near Wheatley. Thirteen homes were completely demolished and six other homes sustained structural damage. Further along its path, the tornado hit a farm about 4.5 miles northeast of Wheatley. The farmhouse lost part of its roof. Two or three machine sheds were demolished, several other outbuildings were damaged, grain storage bins were flatted and blown several hundreds of feet away and irrigation equipment suffered extensive damage. |
| November 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | 4 hurt, $50,000 | Straight line winds blew seven tractor trailers off of Interstate 40 near Palestine. 4 injuries were reported from crashes. A motel in Wheatley had some roof damage. In addition...a Dollar General store in Forrest City received structural damage from the winds as the store front window was blown in. Several trees and power lines were also knocked down. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | $70,000 | Seven tractor trailers were blown over on Interstate 40 between mile markers 222 and 225 near Wheatley. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Wheatley | $50,000 | A weak tornado crossed from Monroe County into St. Francis County. A few trees and power lines were knocked down. Two tractor trailers were blown off Interstate 40 before the tornado lifted. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | $50,000 | A crop dusting aircraft that was on the ground was damaged. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | $20,000 | Power lines down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | $5,000 | Straight line winds produced roof damage to a restaurant in Wheatley. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wheatley | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail fell on Interstate 40 near Wheatley. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Wheatley | $100 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | - | A tree was knocked down in Wheatley. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | - | A tree was downed in Wheatley. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Wheatley. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | - | Straight line winds blew an awning across the parking lot and snapped a power pole at a truck stop located along Interstate 40 in Wheatley near mile marker 221. |
| December 2009 | Heavy Rain | Wheatley | - | Total rainfall from Wheatley was 6.20 inches. The heavy rain produced large areas of standing water. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatley | - | Straight line winds knocked trees and power lines down across St. Francis County. Twelve structures received minor damage in Forrest City. Additional structures across the county received minor damage as well. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Wheatley | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Wheatley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Posey | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Blossom | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Goodwin | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Four Gums | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Palestine | 11.7 miles | 14 | |
| Slonikers Mill | 12.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bryanville | 13.1 miles | 16 | |
| Elcana | 13.2 miles | 16 |
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 Wheatley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79629 | 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 83316. 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.









