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Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71909. The Survey maps it on the Goosepond Mountain quadrangle. 15,861 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Hot Springs Village within Garland County

Population over time

2 figures

Hot Springs Village grew from 12,807 to 15,861 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
201012,807
202015,861+3,054 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

145 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs Village between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,051 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 48 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/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Recreation and ceremony8.0 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 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs Village: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Quartz. 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 NameCalciumPast Producer
Quartz Processing Corp. QuarryQuartzProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colemans MillSilicaProducer
Dierks Tract No 3SilicaPast Producer
Hamilton HillSilicaPast Producer
Hogan Green AreaSilicaUnknown
Miller Mountain QuarrySilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs Village in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village$100,000A communication tower was snapped in half in Hot Springs Village.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village$100,000Three large pine trees fell on a home in Hot Springs Village. A pine tree fell on a golf course. Also, an 80-foot tree fell on a home.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village$40,000Trees were knocked down and a couple of houses were damaged.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village$25,000Trees and power lines were down across the area.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village$5,000Trees fell on a house.
May 2025HailHot Springs Village-Hen Egg sized hail fell near Lake Desoto.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village-Numerous trees were blown down in Hot Springs Village.
March 2024HailHot Springs Village-Half-dollar sized hail fell in Hot Springs Village.
May 2024HailHot Springs Village-Quarter-sized hail fell near the community of Hot Springs Village.
June 2023HailHot Springs Village-Quarter size hail fell across the town of Hot Springs Village via mPING report.
June 2023HailHot Springs Village-Baseball size hail fell in Hot Springs Village.
June 2023HailHot Springs Village-Quarter size hail fell across Hot Springs Village per mPING.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village-There was a report on social media of trees blown down on the Desoto golf course in Hot Springs Village.
March 2011HailHot Springs Village-Penny size hail covered the ground.
June 2003Flash FloodHot Springs Village-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in and around Hot Springs Village. A numbers of streets and area roads were covered by high water for several hours.
December 2002Flash FloodHot Springs Village-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in and around Hot Springs Village. A school bus was washed off a nearby road when the driver attempted to drive through the high water. No one else was aboard the bus at the time.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs Village-Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage in Hot Springs Village.
April 2023HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
June 2018HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
June 2018HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
May 2006HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
November 2006HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
November 2005HailHot Springs Village-no account filed
May 2003HailHot Springs Village-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
Beaudry (historical)2.8 miles14
Jessieville3.9 miles13
Blue Springs4.0 miles13
Blakely4.1 miles13
Mountain Valley4.3 miles13
Ozark Lithia5.4 miles15
Lena (historical)6.7 miles13
Fountain Lake6.9 miles14

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 Springs VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586340The 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 72091. 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.