Letona, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72085. It stands on Anders Branch. The Survey maps it on the Letona quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 285 feet above sea level.
On record in Letona
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
Letona Hotellisted 1991
Wesley Marsh Houselisted 1992
Martindale Corn Criblisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresLetona grew from 201 to 240 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 201 | |
| 2010 | 255 | +54 (+27%) |
| 2020 | 240 | -15 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Letona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Letona between 1998 and 2019, burning about 681 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | WHI17514057 |
| 1 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Letona: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Letona in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | 3 hurt, $750,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down. Trees also damaged a number of motor vehicles. One mobile home and two recreational vehicles were overturned. Numerous homes sustained roof damage. There were three injuries. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $200,000 | According to the American Red Cross, two mobile homes were destroyed, two houses and one mobile home suffered major damage, six houses and two mobile homes had minor damage, and one house was affected. In addition, trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $75,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, power lines were blown down, and shingles were blown off a mobile home. In Letona, one tree fell on a church and another fell on a house. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $25,000 | A tree was down on a house. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | - | Some large trees were knocked down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Letona | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Letona | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Albion | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pickens | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Clay | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Pangburn | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Holly Springs | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Short (historical) | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Crosby | 5.5 miles | 9 |
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 Letona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2661236 | The 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 81874. 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.



