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South Lead Hill, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sugar Loaf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72644. It stands on Deshield Fork. The Survey maps it on the Diamond City quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

South Lead Hill within Boone County

Population over time

2 figures

South Lead Hill fell from 102 to 86 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
2010102
202086-16 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

81 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of South Lead Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,677 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 1997Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of South Lead Hill: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Broome CountyLead, ZincUnknown
Saturn PlacerLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Bailey MineLeadPast Producer
Ben Harrison MineLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Ben Harrison MineLead, ZincUnknown
BessieLead, ZincPast Producer1900
Bill Parks ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Lead Hill in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodSouth Lead Hill-High water was covering portions of Highway 7 near Willis.

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Lead Hill1.7 miles15
Winington2.7 miles15
Willis4.2 miles15
Sycamore4.4 miles15
Diamond City4.8 miles15
Keener7.0 miles15
Bergman7.5 miles13
Zinc7.6 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 South Lead HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1981809The 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 55033. 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.