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Lead Hill, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sugar Loaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72644. It lies near Terrapin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Diamond City quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Lead Hill within Boone County

Population over time

2 figures

Lead Hill grew from 271 to 274 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
2010271
2020274+3 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Lead Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,191 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 April 2007Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism37 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 April 2003Arson/incendiarism115 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionPRIEST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lead Hill: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Bailey MineLeadPast Producer
Black Bear ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Max Black MineZincPast Producer
Onwata 1 & 2 7inesZincPast Producer
Rock & Ore ProspectLeadProspect
Roy ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lead Hill in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 26 injuries. 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
July 1999Tornado (F1)Lead Hill26 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLead Hill$75,000Trees and large limbs were down. Shingles were off of houses and a few barns were damaged.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindLead Hill$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindLead Hill$5,000The roof was blown off of a barn.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindLead Hill$1,000A large tree was down across Arkansas Highway 7.
July 2025Flash FloodSouth Lead Hill-High water was covering portions of Highway 7 near Willis.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Trees were reported down in Lead Hill.
May 2019HailLead Hill-Half dollar size hail was reported west of Lead Hill. Report was delayed.
July 2011HailLead Hill-Hail the size of quarters fell for several minutes on Arkansas 7 south of Diamond City.
April 2011Heavy RainLead Hill-The reporting station at Lead Hill recorded its wettest April ever.
October 2009Heavy RainLead Hill-In Lead Hill, it was the wettest October ever recorded.
June 2008HailLead Hill-Golf ball sized hail was reported at the horse arena.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Private boat docks were torn loose from their moorings near Tucker Hollow Marina.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Several boats became untied at a local marina.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph and knocked down some large tree limbs in the Diamond City area.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
May 2000Tornado (F1)Lead Hill-A weak tornado affected the Diamond City area of Boone County...or about 3 miles north of Lead Hill. The tornado caused mostly tree damage as it moved through town, with a couple of trees falling on power and phone lines.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
March 1993HailLead Hill-Hen egg-size hail covered the ground at Lead Hill.
March 1993HailLead Hill-Hen egg-size hail covered the ground at Lead Hill.
March 2020HailLead Hill-no account filed
April 2011HailLead Hill-no account filed
March 2011HailLead Hill-no account filed
June 2008HailLead Hill-no account filed
July 2007HailLead Hill-no account filed
March 2006HailLead Hill-no account filed
March 2006HailLead Hill-no account filed
April 2006HailLead Hill-no account filed
June 2005HailLead Hill-no account filed
March 2002HailLead Hill-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLead Hill-no account filed
July 1999HailLead Hill-no account filed
July 1999WaterspoutLead Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
South Lead Hill1.7 miles15
Sycamore3.0 miles15
Diamond City3.1 miles15
Winington4.4 miles15
Willis4.8 miles15
Boone6.7 miles13
Lowry8.2 miles13
Bellville8.3 miles13

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 Lead HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054211The 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 58050. 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.