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Fountain Hill, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71642. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Hill quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Fountain Hill within Ashley County

Population over time

3 figures

Fountain Hill fell from 215 to 108 between 1930 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
1930215
2010175
2020108-67 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

60 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Hill between 2001 and 2019, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism145 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionASHLEY 179
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined755 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFOUNTAIN HILL
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Fountain Hill: 42 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Hill in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2008Flash FloodFountain Hill$5,000,000Persistent heavy rains occurred from weakening Hurricane Gustav and dumped 8 to 12 inches of rain across the county. This heavy rainfall caused many roads to flood along with several homes taking in water.||Agriculture was especially hard hit as all of the farmland was flooded. In some cases, entire crops were lost or were substantially damaged where yields were very low.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Fountain Hill$500,000This tornado touched down just southeast of Fountain Hill and was on the ground for 5 miles. Numerous trees, some very large, were uprooted and snapped along the path. A church had a part of its roof blown off and a couple of outbuildings were destroyed.
March 1998HailFountain Hill$100,000Golfball size hail accumulated three inches deep. The hail damaged roofs of houses and automobiles.
July 1997HailFountain Hill$50,000Baseball size hail damage a patrol car and several other vehicles.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$25,000Several trees were blown down with a couple on a woodworking shop. Major damaged occurred to the shop from the downed trees.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$20,000Numerous trees were blown down across northern Ashley County. Hail of unknown size also fell.
February 2019FloodFountain Hill$10,000All lanes of Highway 8 between log miles 2.4 and 2.6 were closed due to high water.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 160.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$10,000A few trees and power lines were blown down along Wilson Road in Fountain Hill.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$8,000A few trees were blown down in the northern part of the county.
January 2023Flash FloodFountain Hill$5,000Water was up to the porch of a house near Fountain Hill.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$2,000A few trees were blown down on powerlines.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill$1,000A tree was uprooted in Fountain Hill.
March 2026HailFountain Hill-Quarter size hail fell near Fountain Hill.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill-A tree was blown down across Highway 425.
March 2025HailFountain Hill-Quarter size hail reported near Fountain Hill.
May 2025HailFountain Hill-Hail up to the size of quarters fell in the area.
May 2024Funnel CloudFountain Hill-A brief rotating funnel cloud was visible on video sent in from a spotter around Fountain Hill.
April 2010HailFountain Hill-Walnut sized hail was reported west of Fountain Hill.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFountain Hill-A few trees were blown down along Highway 133.
October 2010HailFountain Hill-no account filed
April 2009HailFountain Hill-no account filed
January 2008HailFountain Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
Roark1.6 miles9
Longview Crossing3.6 miles9
Old Milo4.8 miles9
Beech Creek Crossing5.3 miles9
Milo6.8 miles9
Riley7.1 miles13
Promised Land7.9 miles13
Berea8.0 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 Fountain HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2661786The 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 76957. 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.