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Photograph of Montgomery County Courthouse
Photograph by Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Montgomery County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Montgomery County Courthouse is located at Court Square in the center of Mount Ida, the county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, distinctively blending local rustic character with Classical Revival styling.”

Wikipedia article Montgomery County Courthouse (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Court Sq., Mount Ida, 71957
  • When was it listed? August 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Mount Ida township
  • National Register reference number. 76000441 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery County Courthouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,775 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning17
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Montgomery County Courthouse: 5 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. 5 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
Fisher Mountain MineQuartzProducer1940
Forgotten Aye MineQuartzPast Producer1986

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Ida, the town this property stands in, 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

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.