BlockBowman, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72437. The Survey maps it on the Lake City quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 236 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bowman between 1998 and 2000, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowman in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Bowman | $250,000 | A tornado briefly touched down near Pekin Road near Bowman and moved northeast. The tornado lifted near Highland Drive in Bowman. Five homes and one business garage was damaged. Three mobile homes sustained roof damage. Two brick homes and one business garage also sustained roof damage. A storage shed was destroyed. A chain link fence was blown over. A few trees and tree limbs were knocked down. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Bowman | $50,000 | A tornado developed west of Lake City and crossed Highway 18. The tornado damaged a church along Highway 18. The tornado moved into open field and dissipated south of Lester Road. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bowman | $12,000 | Straight line winds blew a roof off of a mobile home in Bowman. Two trees on the property were also snapped off. |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pekin (historical) | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Southland | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Needham | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lake City | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Claunch | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cane Island (historical) | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Gum Point | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Webbs Mill (historical) | 3.9 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Bowman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4951284 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57416. 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.