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Ida, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72546. The Survey maps it on the Greers Ferry Dam quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Ida within Cleburne County

On record in Ida

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Ida between 1997 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Debris and open burning21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2010Arson/incendiarism36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ida: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ida in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindIda$375,000Nine residences (houses and mobile homes) were damaged, two of which were destroyed; one metal building collapsed; eight metal barns were severely damaged, two of which were flattened and another of which was destroyed; and six vehicles were damaged, one of which was totaled. A number of trees were blown down. Some of the structural damage was due to falling trees and some of it was caused by the wind alone.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindIda$5,000A hay barn suffered major damage, with parts of the barn blown well out into a field.
July 2010Flash FloodIda$1,000Water crept over Arkansas Highway 25 near Tumbling Shoals.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindIda-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and power lines.
September 2012HailIda-no account filed
June 2004HailIda-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindIda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Drasco3.2 miles15
Tumbling Shoals3.8 miles15
Wolf Bayou4.7 miles15
Tyler (historical)5.8 miles15
Wilburn6.0 miles15
Fivemile6.1 miles15
Banner6.3 miles17
Concord6.7 miles17

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 IdaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5986881The 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 50480. 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.