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Whitehall, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72432. It stands on Kaylo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Valley East quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Whitehall within Poinsett County

On record in Whitehall

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

8 surveys from 13 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall between 1998 and 2010, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2001Recreation and ceremony14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 April 2003Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2001Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Whitehall: 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bartholamu PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bartholamu PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bay Village PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Whitehall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2015HailWhitehall-Ping pong size hail near Whitehall.
March 2015Flash FloodWhitehall-Widespread street flooding near Whitehall.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWhitehall-Straight line winds knocked trees down across the southern part of Poinsett County.
April 2025HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2023HailWhitehall-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
Wiley Crossing1.4 miles13
Hydrick2.4 miles13
Bay Village3.8 miles13
Harrisburg5.9 miles9
Anderson Tully7.1 miles13
Stewart7.1 miles13
Arthur (historical)7.3 miles13
Weona Junction7.4 miles9

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 WhitehallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7995959The 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 78764. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.