BlockBefore

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.

Letona within White County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Letona 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.

YearPeople Change
2000201
2010255+54 (+27%)
2020240-15 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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 1998

Regional 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
28 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17514057
1 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009Thunderstorm WindLetona3 hurt, $750,000Numerous 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLetona$200,000According 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 2009Thunderstorm WindLetona$75,000Numerous 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 2009Thunderstorm WindLetona$25,000A tree was down on a house.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLetona-Some large trees were knocked down.
April 2015HailLetona-no account filed
March 2001HailLetona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Mountain Home2.0 miles9
Albion2.5 miles9
Pickens2.6 miles9
Clay3.3 miles9
Pangburn4.5 miles9
Holly Springs4.6 miles11
Short (historical)4.7 miles11
Crosby5.5 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 LetonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2661236The 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.