Mineral Springs, Arkansas Weather
Mineral Springs, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mineral Springs, Franklin County.
Full aviation weather for Mineral Springs is published on the Ozark Franklin County Airport (K7M5) page, 18 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 3 airfields within reach of Mineral Springs have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Mineral Springs: Clarksville Municipal Airport (KH35) 34 km · Drake Field (KFYV) 56 km
Conditions reported at K7M5 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mineral Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mineral Springs.
About Mineral Springs, Arkansas
Mineral Springs, Arkansas, lies in a broad, green valley where the land gently swells and dips, a soft undulation beneath a sky that often carries the blush of peaches at dusk. It lies 37.6 miles south-east of Fayetteville, AR (from Fayetteville, AR: bearing 140°T), and is situated 19.0 miles north-west of Clarksville. The air here has a certain quiet weight, carrying the scent of damp earth and the distant hum of cicadas through the humid summers. Oak and hickory trees, their branches reaching like ancient arms, fringe the fields and climb the low ridges, creating pockets of cool, shadowed woods. The landscape feels settled, as if it has long since found its peace, a place where the wildness of the Ouachita foothills has been softened by generations of human presence, leaving a character of quiet resilience. The history of Mineral Springs is tied to the very earth it rests upon, a place that once drew hopeful prospectors seeking the restorative powers of its mineral waters, a legacy that echoes in its name. Though the grand hotels of a bygone era are now mostly memories, the spirit of that hopeful past lingers, a subtle undercurrent in the daily lives of its residents. The local economy, once buoyed by agriculture and perhaps the promise of those mineral springs, now finds its pulse in the surrounding farmlands, where cattle graze and crops grow under the wide Arkansas sky. While not a hub of industry, Mineral Springs holds a quiet distinction, a place where the land itself whispers stories of discovery and enduring simplicity, a small pocket of life unfolding at its own unhurried pace.
Live animated radar for Mineral Springs and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Mineral Springs, Franklin County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 35.642582°N, 93.731303°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 72949, 71851 |
| Area Code | 479, 870 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mineral Springs, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mineral Springs, Arkansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Mineral Springs includes coordinates 35.642582°N, 93.731303°W, situated in Franklin County. ZIP code 72949, 71851. Telephone area code: 479, 870. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
