[1] The council serves over 18,000 youth and 3,600 adults in thirty-nine counties divided into ten districts, and approximately 100 boys become Eagle Scouts each year.

[3] In May 2001, after years of struggling, it was decided that the Eastern Arkansas Area Council was no longer able to continue service.

On October 26, 2011, Quapaw’s executive board approved a request and the Ouachita Area Council ceased to function, effective January 11, 2012.

The Diamond Lake and Nischa Sipo districts were part of the Ouachita Area Council prior to the merger.

Currently the Quapaw Area Council owns and operates the Gus Blass Scout Reservation, west of Damascus, Arkansas.

This early facility was limited so between 1930 and 1931, fifty-five additional acres were purchased, and a mess hall was constructed.

It is situated on 777 acres in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, 2-1/2 miles south of Viola, Arkansas.

[11] Again, this camp was promptly sold, this time to the Ouachita Camp Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Ross Foundation, but is it available for use by the Troops of the Quapaw Area Council [11] The Order of the Arrow Quapaw Lodge 160 was formed with fifteen members in June 1939 and inducted sixty-two members during the summer of 1939.