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Minturn, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72445. It stands on White Oak Slough. The Survey maps it on the Alicia quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Minturn within Lawrence County

On record in Minturn

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Minturn fell from 109 to 87 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
2010109
202087-22 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

49 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Minturn between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,302 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2006Natural60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minturn in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindMinturn$40,000One vacant house trailer was destroyed. A second trailer was blown over. Some grain bins were damaged. Some trees and power lines were blown over. One tree fell on a house.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindMinturn$25,000A barn was demolished. Three homes were damaged.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMinturn-Multiple mobile homes had roofs completely torn off and several power poles fell in Minturn.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMinturn-A Union Pacific Railroad Weather Station measured a wind gust of 77 mph near Minturn.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindMinturn-Power lines and poles were downed across Lawrence County Road 701 per the Lawrence County Sheriff.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Lindsey1.3 miles10
Arbor Grove3.2 miles12
Hopewell3.3 miles10
Calvin3.5 miles10
Clover Bend3.5 miles10
Lauratown4.5 miles12
Bessie (historical)4.8 miles11
Hoxie5.9 miles14

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 MinturnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2624863The 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 58194. 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.

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.