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Ben Lomond, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Paraclifta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71823. The Survey maps it on the Ben Lomond quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Ben Lomond within Sevier County

On record in Ben Lomond

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ben Lomond fell from 145 to 140 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
2010145
2020140-5 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Ben Lomond between 1997 and 2019, burning about 941 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Smoking3
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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ben Lomond: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
McKeller Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ben Lomond in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond1 hurt, $15,000A weigh station was damaged and numerous trees down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged two barns.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond$20,000Wind damage was reported to the front porch of a home and the chimney of the same house.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond-Several trees were blown down in Ben Lomond.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond-A 70 mph wind gust was measured in the Ben Lomond community.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond-Large tree limbs fell, damaging powerlines and a street light in the Ben Lomond community.
May 2008HailBen Lomond-Hail fell along Hwy 27 just west of the Howard County line.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond-Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBen Lomond-Numerous trees down.
March 1999Flash FloodBen Lomond-Portions of Hwy 27 washed out.

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Cowlingsville2.8 miles11
Brownstown3.0 miles11
Millers Crossing3.3 miles11
Pennys3.9 miles10
White Cliffs4.1 miles11
Paraclifta (historical)4.1 miles11
Cornhill (historical)4.7 miles11
Paraloma5.9 miles11

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 Ben LomondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2210218The 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 76301. 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.