Frog Bayou Bridge · Photo: Dementex · CC BY-SA 3.0Mountainburg’s library is a branch of Crawford County Library System, which lends less per resident than 75% of systems its size
Mountainburg’s library is the Mountainburg Public Library, a branch of Crawford County Library System, which serves 62,741 people and lent 148K items last year.
What stands out about Mountainburg Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Mountainburg’s civic life grade
Mountainburg isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Crawford County Library System serves 62,741 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Crawford County Library System system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
148K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
34,710 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Find it
Mountainburg Public Library, 1300 Highway 71 NE, Mountainburg.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Crawford County Library System branch.
New in Mountainburg? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.18 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mountainburg cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.2M budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 17,595 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Mountainburg Public Library is one branch of Crawford County Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 62,741 people it serves.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Mountainburg
Does Mountainburg have a public library?
Yes: Mountainburg Public Library, 1300 Highway 71 NE, is a branch of Crawford County Library System, which serves 62,741 people. The branch is open about 48 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Crawford County Library System fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Mountainburg’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 2.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Mountainburg’s civic life grade?
Mountainburg isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Mountainburg.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.