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Diamond City, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sugar Loaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72644. It stands on West Sugarloaf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Diamond City quadrangle. 757 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Diamond City within Boone County

Population over time

2 figures

Diamond City fell from 782 to 757 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
2010782
2020757-25 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Diamond City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 730 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1

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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230665-10606-08092020-1155
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230663-10606-04072020-1430
7 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2007Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Diamond City: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Max Black MineZincPast Producer
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond City in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindDiamond City$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDiamond City-A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a vehicle and camper in Diamond City.
May 2019HailDiamond City-Quarter size hail was noted at Diamond City. Also, 1.50 inches of rain fell quickly.
March 2017HailDiamond City-Law enforcement in Diamond City reported quarter sized hail as the storm passed through. Also seen, was a rain-wrapped funnel. They could not tell if it was in contact with the ground and no damage was found.
March 2015Funnel CloudDiamond City-no account filed
May 2009HailDiamond City-no account filed
June 2008HailDiamond City-no account filed
October 1995HailDiamond City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Sycamore2.5 miles15
Lead Hill3.1 miles15
South Lead Hill4.8 miles15
Boone5.4 miles13
Willis6.9 miles15
Lowry7.1 miles13
Bellville7.4 miles13
Winington7.5 miles15

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 Diamond CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79340The 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 57652. 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.