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Mineral Springs, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mineral Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71851. It stands on Dillard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Springs North quadrangle. 1,085 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Mineral Springs within Howard County

On record in Mineral Springs

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Mineral Springs fell from 1,264 to 1,085 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
20001,264
20101,208-56 (-4%)
20201,085-123 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Springs between 1997 and 2019, burning about 544 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Springs: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Titanium, Metal. 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
Beulah Green-Pink Green PlacerTitanium, MetalOccurrenceIlmenite
Adolph Chanosky DepositTitaniumOccurrence
UnknownTitaniumOccurrence
Bell Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bevell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
N DavisSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral Springs 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1993Thunderstorm WindMineral Springs$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several sheds and knocked down a few trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMineral Springs$50Several tree limbs were broken off.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMineral Springs-Several trees were blown down in Mineral Springs.
October 1993HailMineral Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Midway2.2 miles14
Wakefield (historical)3.0 miles14
Buck Range3.7 miles14
Tollette4.0 miles15
Amity (historical)4.0 miles14
Unity4.2 miles14
Schaal4.2 miles15
Shiloh4.6 miles11

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 Mineral SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80196The 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 77672. 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.