Brownsville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lonoke Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72086. The Survey maps it on the Lonoke quadrangle.

Brownsville within Lonoke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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.

1940 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Lonoke SW quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 2002 and 2014, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 February 2004	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 December 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	LON4486400

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke 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
Lonoke	2.7 miles	15
Sisemore	2.9 miles	14
McCreanor	5.1 miles	14
Eagle Park (historical)	5.3 miles	14
Furlow	5.4 miles	15
Wattensaw	6.3 miles	14
Meto	6.6 miles	15
Kelly Addition	6.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59092. 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.