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Fort Smith
Arkansas, United States · Population 89,159
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Most urgent first: any weather warning, when school is back, whether neighbours have water. Two tools now take your address and read the city's own maps back to you.
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Severe Weather & Tornado Alerts
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Is There School Today?
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Water Watch
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The Sewer Plants on the Record
What Day Is My Trash Day?
Type your address and get your collection day from the city's own route map — the black trash cart, the blue recycling cart and the green yard waste cart, with the next three dates.
Who Represents Me, and Where Do I Vote?
Type your address: your ward and its director, your polling place, and the state, county and school districts on your ballot — read live from the city's and the county's own maps.
Is the Power Out, or Is It Just Me?
A neighbour board for Fort Smith: tap your part of town when the power goes out, and see whether anyone else has. Plus OG&E's line, which is the one that gets a crew.
Is the Arkansas River Going to Flood?
The live Arkansas River height at the National Weather Service gauge at Van Buren, against the official flood thresholds.
Your Drinking Water on the Record
What the federal record says about Fort Smith Water Utilities and the systems around it — violations in the last three years, whether any were health-based, lead and copper, and when the state last inspected.
Water & Sewer Bill Estimator
Estimate your monthly water, sewer and sanitation bill from your usage — and see how it grows as the consent-decree sewer rates rise through 2030.
Water & Sewer Rates
Plain-language answers on the consent-decree-driven water and sewer rate increases, with the official rate sheet.
Trash & Recycling
Your collection day, what actually goes in each of the three carts, the holiday rule that moves everything to Wednesday, where glass and electronics really go, and the number that reaches Solid Waste Services.
What's On in Fort Smith
The city's recurring fixtures, festivals and dated events in one place, each with its source.
Fort Smith Favorites
Questions Fort Smith keeps asking — best local eats, the Fort Chaffee-rooted Vietnamese and Lao spots, where to take visitors — answered by the people who live here and ranked by votes.
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Changelog
- UpdatedCorrected four things on the trash and recycling page
- New toolShipped a neighbour board for power outages
- New toolShipped a who-represents-me and where-do-I-vote lookup
- New toolShipped an address lookup for your trash, recycling and yard waste day
- UpdatedFixed The Sewer Plants on the Record, which was coming up empty
- New toolShipped a school-year page: Fort Smith goes back on 12 August
- ResearchWhat Fort Smith residents talk about, corrected and extended
- UpdatedCorrections: the sanitation charge, two rate dates, and the number for Solid Waste Services
- UpdatedA new tool: the federal record on Fort Smith's two sewer plants
- New toolFort Smith: the federal record on your drinking water, and a neighbour board for when it goes off
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