Brown, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72442. The Survey maps it on the Manila North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Brown within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1941 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Manila North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brown (historical) in 2007, burning under an acre 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
Smoking	1

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
23 June 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	LEVEE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi 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
Poplar Corner	2.4 miles	11
Clearwater	2.6 miles	10
Springfield (historical)	2.9 miles	10
Leachville	3.1 miles	10
Manila	3.1 miles	11
Orr (historical)	3.3 miles	10
Carmi	3.5 miles	10
Whisp	4.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70081. 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.