Editing Stone County, Arkansas (section)

==Infrastructure==
===Aviation===
[[Mountain View Airport (Arkansas)|Mountain View Airport]] is the only public owned/public use airport in Stone County. Also known as Harry E. Wilcox Memorial Field, the facility is a small, rural [[general aviation]] airport with 5,650 annual operations.<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=7M2|use=PU|own=PU|site=01107.2*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective December 6, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.</ref> Stone County also contains one private airfield.<ref name="sto" /> The nearest commercial service airport is [[Clinton National Airport]] in Little Rock.

===Major highways===
[[File:Highway 5, 9 and 14 in Mountain View, AR 003.jpg|right|thumb|Highway 5/9/14 pass through the Ozarks north of Mountain View]]
Stone County is not served by any [[List of Interstate Highways in Arkansas|Interstate highways]] nor [[List of U.S. Highways in Arkansas|United States highways]]; the nearest access to the Interstate system is [[Interstate 40]] (I-40) in [[Conway, Arkansas|Conway]]. Ten [[List of state highways in Arkansas|state highways]] serve the traveling public in the county, varying from short connector routes to long highways traversing the entire county. [[Arkansas Highway 5|Highway&nbsp;5]] and [[Arkansas Highway 9|Highway&nbsp;9]] are major north–south highways across the Ozarks; each crosses through the county through Mountain View. The two routes briefly form a [[concurrency (road)|concurrency]], or overlap, between Mountain View and Allison.

[[Arkansas Highway 14|Highway&nbsp;14]] is a major east–west highway across northern Arkansas, it crosses the county and connects Mountain View and Fifty-Six via an overlap with Highway&nbsp;5 and Highway&nbsp;9. [[Arkansas Highway 87|Highway&nbsp;87]] connects the communities more directly along a winding alignment. [[Arkansas Highway 66|Highway&nbsp;66]] has its eastern terminus in Mountain View, and runs west to [[Leslie, Arkansas|Leslie]] in [[Searcy County, Arkansas|Searcy County]], connecting Mountain View to [[U.S. Route 65 in Arkansas|US&nbsp;Highway&nbsp;65]] (US&nbsp;65). [[Arkansas Highway 263|Highway&nbsp;263]] connects several unincorporated communities in southwestern Stone County. [[Arkansas Highway 382|Highway&nbsp;382]] serves as an access for Ozark Folk Center State Park. [[Arkansas Highway 58|Highway&nbsp;58]], [[Arkansas Highway 74|Highway&nbsp;74]], and [[Arkansas Highway 110|Highway&nbsp;110]] pass through the county for a few miles on their way to other destinations.

The county also contains the [[Sylamore Scenic Byway]], an [[Arkansas Scenic Byways|Arkansas Scenic Byway]] and [[National Forest Scenic Byway]].

===Utilities===
{{See also|List of public utilities in Arkansas}}
[[Entergy|Entergy Arkansas]] is the sole provider of electricity in almost all of Stone County, with exceptions in the northern tip (served by [[North Arkansas Electric Cooperative]]), south of Mountain View ([[First Electric Cooperative]]) and the southwest corner ([[Petit Jean Electric Cooperative]]).<ref>{{ cite map |title=Electric Utility Service Territories (polygon) |date= October 16, 2014 |orig-year=June 5, 2009 |edition= Update |url= http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgis.arkansas.gov%2Farcgis%2Frest%2Fservices%2FFEATURESERVICES%2FUtilities%2FFeatureServer%2F11&source=sd |publisher= Arkansas GIS Office |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref>

[[File:Downtown Mountain View, AR 004.jpg|right|thumb|upright|[[Mountain View Waterworks|Mountain View's downtown water tower]] is listed on the NRHP]]
The [[Arkansas Department of Health]] (ADH) is responsible for the regulation and oversight of public water systems throughout the state. Stone County contains six community water systems: the City of Fifty-Six Water Department, the City of Mountain View Water Department, Pleasant Grove Water Association, Richwoods Water Association, Sylamore Valley Water Association, and the West Stone County Water Association. Mountain View has the largest direct retail population served (7,295, all in Stone County), followed by West Stone County (4,634, including customers served in adjacent counties), Pleasant Grove Water Association (2,315), and Richwoods Water Association (1,436), with the remaining systems under 600 retail population served.<ref>{{ cite web |title= Community Water System Data |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health, Engineering Section |location= Little Rock |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/autoupdates/data.xls |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref> Of the water systems serving Stone County, only Fifty-Six uses groundwater, the Gunter Sandstone Aquifer, though also purchasing water from [[Big Flat, Arkansas|Big Flat]], which pumps from the same aquifer.<ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= Fifty Six Water Department Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/046.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227050232/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/046.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref> The City of Mountain View uses the White River,<ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= Mountain View Water Department Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/542.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227055214/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/542.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref> and the remaining systems purchasing treated water from Mountain View.<ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= Pleasant Grove Water Association Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/720.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226223611/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/720.pdf |archive-date=December 26, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= Richwood Water Association Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/835.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227061411/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/835.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= Sylamore Valley Water Association Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/882.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226224612/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/882.pdf |archive-date=December 26, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref>{{#tag:ref|West Stone County Water Association also purchases water from Community Water Systems, whose source is [[Greers Ferry Lake]].<ref>{{ cite web |publisher= Arkansas Department of Health |year= 2017 |title= West Stone County Water Association Annual Drinking Water Quality Report |url= http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/735.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226223832/http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/eng/ccr/735.pdf |archive-date=December 26, 2016 |url-status=live |work= Consumer Confidence Report |location= Little Rock |access-date= January 1, 2019 }}</ref>|group=Note}}