Mountainburg, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 13. It lies in ZIP code area 72946. It stands on Warloop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountainburg quadrangle. 528 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
On record in Mountainburg
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 1 record
Frog Bayou Bridgelisted 1995
Population over time
10 figuresMountainburg grew from 213 to 528 between 1930 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 213 | |
| 1940 | 185 | -28 (-13%) |
| 1950 | 405 | +220 (+119%) |
| 1960 | 402 | -3 (-1%) |
| 1970 | 524 | +122 (+30%) |
| 1980 | 595 | +71 (+14%) |
| 1990 | 488 | -107 (-18%) |
| 2000 | 682 | +194 (+40%) |
| 2010 | 631 | -51 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 528 | -103 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Winslow #4 quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Mountainburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
87 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Mountainburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 842 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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 | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WARLOOP |
| 5 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1999 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 72 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountainburg in 72 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | $100,000 | Ash Street bridge in Mountainburg was washed out by flood water. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | $50,000 | Multiple homes were flooded with up to fourteen inches of water. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Mountainburg | $15,000 | Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Mountainburg | $15,000 | Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Mountainburg | $5,000 | Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a barn and snapped large tree limbs. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and power lines. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew out a window of a home. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew trees and business signs down. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $800 | Several large trees were blown down near Mountainburg, and the flag pole at city hall was blown over. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 71 in Mountainburg. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree on Highway 71, southwest of Mountainburg. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 71 mph. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be more than 75 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree, and snapped large tree limbs. |
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | - | Highway 282 was flooded and closed at Frog Bayou. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | - | Portions Highway 282 were closed due to flooding. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees north of Mountainburg. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | - | Portions of Highway 282 were flooded and closed. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph in Mountainburg. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Mountainburg | - | Highway 282 southwest of Mountainburg was closed due to flooding. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| April 1999 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | - | Low-water crossings were flooded near Mountainburg |
| May 1997 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | A severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail at Mountainburg. |
| November 1996 | Flash Flood | Mountainburg | - | Thunderstorms during the evening of November 6th and early morning of November 7th produced widespread rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches across northwest Arkansas which resulted in flash flooding. In Benton County, street flooding occurred in Bentonville, a car was washed off a road 2 miles south of Lowell near the community of Bethel Heights, and numerous roads were flooded throughout the county. In Crawford County, street flooding occurred in Van Buren and in Mountainburg, and low water crossings and low-lying areas in Mountainburg were also flooded. In Madison County, State Highway 16 was flooded along the White River in the southern part of the county, and the intersection of State Highways 16 and 23 2 miles northeast of St. Paul was flooded. County roads and bridges were also flooded in and near Clifty. In Sebastian County, widespread street flooding occurred in and near Fort Smith, and State Highways 378 and 45 were flooded in the western and southern parts of the county. 3 to 4 feet of water covered State Highway 45 near Bonanza. In Washington County, low-lying areas and numerous county roads were flooded in and near Fayetteville. In Carroll County, street flooding occurred in Green Forest. |
| October 1995 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | A severe thunderstorm in Crawford County produced dime-size hail at Uniontown and eight miles north of Mountainburg. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | no account filed |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountainburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cain | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Chester | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Graphic | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Maddux Spring | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lancaster (historical) | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Locke | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Armada (historical) | 5.8 miles | 16 |
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 Mountainburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79327 | 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 77771. 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.








