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.
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
Montgomery County Courthouselisted 1976
Mount Ida Cities Service Filling Stationlisted 2001
Population over time
3 figuresMount 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 298 | |
| 2010 | 1,076 | |
| 2020 | 996 | -80 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
82 since 1993Regional 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/incendiarism | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ouachita National Forest | FAIR GROUND ROAD |
| 21 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | RIFLE RANGE #1 |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Ouachita National Forest | RIFLE RANGE #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher Mt | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lebow Copper Deposit | Copper, Iron | Unknown | ||
| Mauldin Pit | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Dist 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Burch Lode Mine | Quartz | Producer | 1982 | |
| Diamond Drill Carbon #3 | Quartz | Unknown | ||
| Forgotten Aye Mine | Quartz | Past Producer | 1986 | |
| Leatherhead Mine | Quartz | Producer | 1987, 1990 |
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Ida | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a chicken house. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Ida | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs. ARKANSAS, Central and North Central, Cont'd |
| April 1995 | Hail | Mount Ida | - | no account filed |
| January 1994 | Hail | Mount Ida | - | no account filed |
| January 1994 | Hail | Mount Ida | - | no account filed |
| January 1994 | Hail | Mount Ida | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauldin | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sweethome | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Owley | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hurricane Grove | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chasewood Landing | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Rubie | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Gaston | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Buddys Landing | 6.7 miles | 15 |
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 Ida | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79357 | 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 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.








