Blue Mountain, Arkansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Blue Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72826. It lies near Donathan Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mountain quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.
On record in Blue Mountain
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
3 figuresBlue Mountain fell from 132 to 88 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 132 | |
| 2010 | 124 | -8 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 88 | -36 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1879 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:62500
- 1887 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Magazine Mountain #4 quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
73 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Blue Mountain between 1994 and 2020, burning about 955 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/incendiarism | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WICKED |
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revilee | 4.1 miles | 22 | |
| Magazine | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Sugar Grove | 5.8 miles | 22 | |
| Corley | 7.0 miles | 19 | |
| Mountain Grove | 7.4 miles | 22 | |
| Driggs | 8.0 miles | 22 | |
| Cauthron | 8.8 miles | 22 | |
| Mixon | 9.3 miles | 22 |
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 Blue Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2660579 | The 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 70733. 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.










