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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.

Blue Mountain within Logan County

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 figures

Blue 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.

YearPeople Change
2000132
2010124-8 (-6%)
202088-36 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

73 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWICKED
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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
Revilee4.1 miles22
Magazine5.2 miles22
Sugar Grove5.8 miles22
Corley7.0 miles19
Mountain Grove7.4 miles22
Driggs8.0 miles22
Cauthron8.8 miles22
Mixon9.3 miles22

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660579The 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.