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Hot Springs, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hot Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71901. It stands on Hot Springs Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hot Springs North quadrangle. 37,930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Hot Springs within Garland County

On record in Hot Springs

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 12 of 82 shown

Every listing in Garland County

Population over time

2 figures

Hot Springs grew from 35,193 to 37,930 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
201035,193
202037,930+2,737 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

161 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning30
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Fireworks6
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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHot Springs National ParkVEHICLE WF
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs: 13 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay, Stone. 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
No NameFlagstonePast Producer
Potash Sulfur SpringsNiobium (Columbium)Occurrence
Hot Springs MillSilicaProducer
Mc Earl MineSilicaProducer
Natural Hones MillSilicaProducer
No NameClayPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
April 1994HailHot Springs$5,000Golf ball-size hail broke several car windshields.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$500The tops of some trees were broken off.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree that blocked a road in Hot Springs.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Winds gusted to 69 mph at the Hot Springs Airport. Some tree limbs were also blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Several trees were blown down, resulting in power outages.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees in the western part of Hot Springs.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Some trees were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995HailHot Springs-Lightning struck an apartment building in Hot Springs which resulted in a fire.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
July 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some tree limbs.
June 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
June 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 1995HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
May 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailHot Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailHot Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Euclid Heights1.4 miles15
Spring Lake (historical)3.7 miles12
Piney3.8 miles13
Bonanza Springs (historical)4.1 miles15
Dripping Springs (historical)4.4 miles14
Rockwell5.0 miles8
Lake Catherine5.2 miles12
Potash Sulphur Springs (historical)5.3 miles12

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 Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79924The 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 77237. 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.