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Altheimer, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plum Bayou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72004. The Survey maps it on the Altheimer quadrangle. 696 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Altheimer within Jefferson County

On record in Altheimer

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Altheimer fell from 984 to 696 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.

YearPeople Change
2010984
2020696-288 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Altheimer between 2001 and 2014, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning49 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Altheimer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
O Gilsby ProspectManganesePast Producer1918

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altheimer in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAltheimer1 hurtA tree fell on a man, injuring him.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindAltheimer$15,000Trees were blown down.
August 2010Flash FloodAltheimer$1,000Street flooding occurred in Altheimer.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAltheimer$1,000Minor damage occurred to an outbuilding.
March 2024HailAltheimer-Half-dollar sized hail fell in the community of Altheimer.
September 2011HailAltheimer-Hail up to the size of baseballs pounded Altheimer.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-Power lines were blown down at Altheimer.
March 2015HailAltheimer-no account filed
November 2004Flash FloodAltheimer-no account filed
April 2003HailAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001HailAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
June 1996HailAltheimer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Newtown1.1 miles14
Ellison3.4 miles13
Rob Roy3.7 miles13
Wabbaseka4.0 miles14
Lake Dick4.7 miles14
Haywood5.1 miles13
Wilkins6.0 miles13
Diantha (historical)6.2 miles13

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 AltheimerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79233The 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 45849. 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.