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.
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.
- Old US 67, Alicia to Hoxielisted 2003 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresMinturn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 109 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -22 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1935 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 July 2006 | Natural | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minturn | $40,000 | One 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minturn | $25,000 | A barn was demolished. Three homes were damaged. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minturn | - | Multiple mobile homes had roofs completely torn off and several power poles fell in Minturn. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minturn | - | A Union Pacific Railroad Weather Station measured a wind gust of 77 mph near Minturn. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minturn | - | Power lines and poles were downed across Lawrence County Road 701 per the Lawrence County Sheriff. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsey | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Arbor Grove | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hopewell | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Calvin | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Clover Bend | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Lauratown | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bessie (historical) | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hoxie | 5.9 miles | 14 |
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 Minturn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2624863 | 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 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.




