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Imboden, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72434. It stands on Harding Creek. The Survey maps it on the Imboden quadrangle. 640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Imboden within Lawrence County

On record in Imboden

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Imboden fell from 677 to 640 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
2010677
2020640-37 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Imboden between 1997 and 2018, burning about 629 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Imboden: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Dolomite, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Adams PropertyIronProspect
Ben M HoganLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Campbell Zinc Co's Shaft 1Lead, Zinc, DolomitePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imboden in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindImboden$500,000Thunderstorm winds, estimated as high as 90 mph, knocked down numerous trees and power lines. Several trees fell onto cars.
July 2003HailImboden$50,000A car dealership in Black Rock had many of its vehicles damaged by the hail.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindImboden$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindImboden$30,000no account filed
October 2004Thunderstorm WindImboden$20,000Several homes and buildings were damaged. Several trees were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindImboden$15,000Several trees down around Imboden.
February 2018Flash FloodImboden$10,000Flooding reported throughout the entire Imboden area.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindImboden$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged an outbuilding.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindImboden$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindImboden$1,000Bleachers completely blown over at Sloan-Hendrix baseball field in Imboden.
May 2001HailImboden$500no account filed
May 1997HailImboden$110no account filed
January 1999HailImboden$100no account filed
July 1996HailImboden$10no account filed
March 2018HailImboden-Hail ranged from dime to quarter size.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindImboden-Estimated 50 to 60 mph gust.
June 2013Flash FloodImboden-Heavy rain produced flash flooding around Walnut Ridge. Up to a foot of water covered many secondary roads in the vicinity of Walnut Ridge.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindImboden-Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines from Imboden to Black Rock. A tree was knocked on to a home in Black Rock.
March 2008Flash FloodImboden-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Imboden. Highway 62 and Highway 63 were closed due to flooding.
September 1993HailImboden-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
April 2023HailImboden-no account filed
April 2022HailImboden-no account filed
March 2012HailImboden-no account filed
August 2011HailImboden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Sloan3.0 miles13
Hogan3.8 miles13
Ravenden4.6 miles9
Annieville4.8 miles13
Opposition (historical)6.7 miles9
Denton7.6 miles13
Black Rock7.7 miles12
Frisbee (historical)8.1 miles9

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 ImbodenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2635135The 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 57965. 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.