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Lake Hamilton, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71913. It stands on Fourche a Loupe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hot Springs South quadrangle. 2,084 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Lake Hamilton within Garland County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Hamilton fell from 2,135 to 2,084 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
20102,135
20202,084-51 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

120 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Lake Hamilton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 938 acres in total. 11 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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 2009Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lake Hamilton: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Mc Earl MineSilicaProducer
Hot Spring City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hot Springs Village Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
James Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Hamilton in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 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 WindLake Hamilton$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton$40,000A large tree was blown down, partially onto a home. A metal carport was damaged as well.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton$5,000Several power lines were blown down near the intersection of highways 7 and 290.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 2023HailLake Hamilton-Golf ball sized hail at Lake Hamilton via mPING.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-A tree was blown down near Lake Hamilton. There were also several power outages through the Lake Hamilton region.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-A few trees were blown down near Caroline Acres Point.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-There was some damage to cabins on Lake Hamilton Dr., along with some trees blown down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-A few trees were downed.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-Numerous trees and power lines were downed around Lake Hamilton, with a tree on a house. Building materials from a construction site were also blown across a road. Due to the wind, waves were several feet high on Lake Hamilton.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees and damaged the roofs of some buildings around Lake Hamilton.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-Some trees were blown down.
April 2015HailLake Hamilton-no account filed
July 2013HailLake Hamilton-no account filed
March 2010HailLake Hamilton-no account filed
March 2008HailLake Hamilton-no account filed
June 2004HailLake Hamilton-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLake Hamilton-no account filed
May 1994HailLake Hamilton-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
Rockwell3.4 miles8
Red Oak3.9 miles11
Pettyview4.0 miles8
Pleasant Hill4.1 miles8
Piney5.7 miles13
Hot Springs5.9 miles15
Hempwallace6.3 miles8
Euclid Heights6.4 miles15

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 Lake HamiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669007The 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 58034. 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.