Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Mammoth Spring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72554. It stands on Warm Fork Spring River. The Survey maps it on the Mammoth Spring quadrangle. 929 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.
On record in Mammoth Spring
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 6 records
AR 289 Bridge Over English Creeklisted 2009
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Depotlisted 1992
Mammoth Spring Dam and Lakelisted 2009
T. H. Morris Houselisted 1990
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Churchlisted 1986
Spring River Bridgelisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresMammoth Spring fell from 977 to 929 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 977 | |
| 2020 | 929 | -48 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Mammoth Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Cherokee Village quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Mammoth Spring between 1993 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mammoth Spring: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Kolosky Prospect | Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| E C Mainprize Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | 1943 | |
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Arthur Arnold | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Gus Hubble Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Ragan Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Ray Gladden Property | Iron | Prospect | 1895 | |
| Unknown - Limonite | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth Spring in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mammoth Spring | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Mammoth Spring | $50,000 | Hail up to 1.00 inch in diameter, broke windows and damaged roofs and cars in Mammoth Spring. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mammoth Spring | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mammoth Spring | - | Several large limbs were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peach (historical) | 1.6 miles | 7 | |
| Frickenger (historical) | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Fryatt | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| King | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Many Islands | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Baker Ford | 8.3 miles | 7 | |
| Woodland Hills | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Saddle | 11.0 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 Mammoth Spring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79517 | 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 77585. 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.




