Arkansas lake · state assessment record
Lake Atkins
The assessment record reported by Arkansas to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b).
- 674
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Lake Atkins, a lake in Arkansas, has no overall assessment verdict in the state's most recent Integrated Report. By assessed acreage it sits among the largest 10% by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes).
- Not reported
- overall status
- P92
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
How Lake Atkins reads against the filed register
Paragraphs are selected by this unit's percentiles and use matrix: different lakes lead with different dimensions. Figures are ATTAINS / portal register arithmetic, not advice.
The signature stat: assessed size
The number that most separates Lake Atkins nationally is assessed size: 674 acres, larger than 92% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Arkansas carries 144 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Lake Atkins without modification. See our methodology for reporting-unit limits and gauge linking rules.
The record
Listed impairment causes
No causes are listed because this lake has no overall assessment verdict in the reported cycle. An unassessed waterbody is neither confirmed clean nor confirmed impaired.
Reading the record
What Lake Atkins's record holds
Scale and rank
Lake Atkins is one of 144 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Arkansas. It is not among the 69 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 674 assessed acres it ranks 3,011th by assessed size among the 38,628 lakes the dataset carries an area for, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once, behind 3,010 lakes with a larger one.
Which uses were judged
Arkansas filed no use-level rows for this lake and reached no overall verdict, so nothing here was judged either way.
What this record holds
Arkansas filed no overall verdict, no reporting cycle and no EPA category for this lake, so the record holds the identifying fields above and no judgement of any kind: no verdict, and no impairment cause to track over time. The state has not yet filed a definitive fish-consumption verdict, a definitive recreation verdict, a definitive aquatic-life verdict, and 1 other for this record; those fields populate when it reports them in a future Integrated Report cycle.
In context
Where Lake Atkins sits nationally
Assessed size among U.S. lakes
Distribution of assessed acreage across ATTAINS lakes filed with an area, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once
674 Top 8% larger than 92% of 38,628 lakes
lakes the dataset carries an area for, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once, bucketed by value
Source EPA ATTAINS · Reporting cycles 1987–2026
In both charts each bar is a band and taller bars hold more waterbodies; the dashed line and filled bar mark Lake Atkins. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Arkansas context
ATTAINS carries 144 lake-type waterbodies in Arkansas, 62 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 55 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Arkansas | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Dardanelle Lake Fully Supporting | 34,041 |
| Millwood Lake Fully Supporting | 29,500 |
| Ouachita Lake Fully Supporting | 24,695 |
| Bull Shoals Not Supporting | 22,046 |
| Greers Ferry Lake Fully Supporting | 18,151 |
| Felsenthal Lake Not Supporting | 14,000 |
Lakes near Lake Atkins's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (674 acres here).
- Cut-Off Lake · 674 acres · MO
- Lewiston Lake · 674 acres · CA
- Silver Lake · 673 acres · MI
- Smith Reservoir. · 673 acres · CO
What to do with this record
- Assessment verdicts are cycle-based, not real-time. For fish-consumption decisions, your state advisory program is the binding source. Consumption status guide
- Impairment listings follow the Clean Water Act 303(d) process; a listing is a regulatory finding, not a closure notice. 303(d) explained
PlainLakes renders state assessment decisions and federal gauge observations without modification. It does not issue advisories.
Assessment decisions on this page are rendered directly from state Integrated Report records in EPA's ATTAINS system; gauge figures are daily-value observations from the USGS National Water Information System, no number is typed in by an editor. Overall status, use verdicts, and causes are the state's reported decisions for assessment unit AR_11110203_4070. Counts and percentiles are computed across all lake-type records PlainLakes ingests from ATTAINS. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-17. Primary sources: EPA ATTAINS and USGS National Water Information System.