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Mount Ida, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Ida Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71957. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Ida quadrangle. 996 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Mount Ida within Montgomery County

On record in Mount Ida

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

Mount Ida grew from 298 to 996 between 1920 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
1920298
20101,076
2020996-80 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

82 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Mount Ida between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,755 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 25 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
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning17
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
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 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestFAIR GROUND ROAD
21 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOuachita National ForestRIFLE RANGE #1
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresOuachita National ForestRIFLE RANGE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mount Ida: 4 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Fisher MtStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lebow Copper DepositCopper, IronUnknown
Mauldin PitFlagstoneProducer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Dist 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Burch Lode MineQuartzProducer1982
Diamond Drill Carbon #3QuartzUnknown
Forgotten Aye MineQuartzPast Producer1986
Leatherhead MineQuartzProducer1987, 1990

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Ida in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 hail, 2 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
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Ida-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a chicken house.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Ida-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs. ARKANSAS, Central and North Central, Cont'd
April 1995HailMount Ida-no account filed
January 1994HailMount Ida-no account filed
January 1994HailMount Ida-no account filed
January 1994HailMount Ida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Mauldin3.1 miles15
Sweethome3.2 miles15
Owley3.3 miles15
Hurricane Grove3.3 miles15
Chasewood Landing5.7 miles15
Rubie6.5 miles15
Gaston6.7 miles15
Buddys Landing6.7 miles15

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 Mount IdaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79357The 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 77718. 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.