Bulltown, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. The Survey maps it on the Grays quadrangle.

Bulltown within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1971 USGS Grays quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bulltown between 1999 and 2020, burning about 310 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	119 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2008	Debris and open burning	155 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	THREE FORKS
11 June 2004	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bulltown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Penn	Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodruff 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
Tip	2.0 miles	12
Wiville	3.5 miles	12
Howell	3.9 miles	13
Quinlan (historical)	4.7 miles	12
Hillemann	4.7 miles	12
Colona	5.1 miles	12
Barson	5.6 miles	11
Beard (historical)	5.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76465. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.