Boswell, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Athens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72556. It stands on Vest Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Boswell quadrangle.

Boswell within Izard County

On record in Boswell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Boswell Schoollisted 1992
Sylvester Smith Farmsteadlisted 1992
Vest Cemeterylisted 2016

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1890 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Boswell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

142 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Boswell between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,400 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 67 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/incendiarism	67
Debris and open burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR
12 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boswell in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2008	Flood	Boswell	$12,000,000	Heavy rain caused the White River at Calico Rock to go well above major flood level. The river crested less than a foot lower than the December, 1982 flood crest, but there has been substantial development in the floodplain during the last 25 years. Water was covering Arkansas Highways 5 and 56. The foot bridges that crossed Calico Creek were washed out. Water got into the lower units of a motel, into a business in Peppersauce Alley, buildings on Chesmond Landing, and many houses. At least 20 homes in Mt. Olive and 13 in Guion were flooded or totally washed away. Over 40 homes sustained some degree of damage and about 20 were washed away by the floodwaters. There was a fishing outfitting businesses that was destroyed, with the business and the dock with boats and equipment torn away by the swift waters. There were also reports of large round hay bales and cattle, both alive and dead, in the river.
May 2000	Tornado (F1)	Boswell	-	A weak tornado moved from eastern Stone County into western Izard County...mainly affecting areas near Boswell. The tornado mainly caused tree damage before dissipating.
April 2003	Hail	Boswell	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Boswell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vest (historical)	0.8 miles	19
Mount Olive	3.4 miles	19
Brandenburg	3.9 miles	16
Arkins (historical)	4.1 miles	16
Jumbo	4.3 miles	10
Lone Star	4.3 miles	10
Gorby	4.4 miles	19
Knob Creek	4.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70774. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.