Mount Ida
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city in and county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Montgomery
- Incorporated city
- May 30, 1890
- Total
- 1.60 sq mi (4.14 km )
- Land
- 1.57 sq mi (4.06 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km )
- Elevation
- 659 ft (201 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 1,005
- Density
- 634.7/sq mi (245.06/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 05-47690
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Mount Ida
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 996
- Area
- 4.217698
- Elevation
- 203
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Montgomery County
- Official website
- www.mtidachamber.com
- Image
- Montgomery County Courthouse 003.jpg
- Households
- 513
- Dialing code
- 870
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- Commons category
- Mount Ida, Arkansas
- postal code
- 71957
- inception
- 1890-05-30
- water as percent of area
- 1.9741
- P8168
- Saalbach
- water area
- 0.083263
- per capita income
- 20304
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Ida is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States. Founded in 1842, the city saw a silver boom in the 1880s bring early prosperity and economic development to the area.
Today, the economy is largely ranching, poultry farming, silviculture, and tourism around Lake Ouachita. It is known as the quartz crystal capital of the U.S. and is known worldwide for its quartz deposits. The population was 996 as of the 2020 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Ida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.