Cotton Belt, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bagwell Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paragould East quadrangle.

Cotton Belt within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Paragould East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Belt in 2015, burning about 69 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
13 February 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 January 2015	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 January 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cotton Belt: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cline Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Edd Ridge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Express Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Greene County	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jf Bowlin	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kelley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
L Treadway	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Wells Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Whitley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Unity	1.2 miles	15
Noxburn	1.5 miles	15
Halliday	2.4 miles	15
Morning Star	2.5 miles	15
Twin Oaks	3.0 miles	15
Paragould	3.0 miles	15
Oak Grove Heights	3.2 miles	15
Lake Side	3.8 miles	15

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 Cotton Belt	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326195	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 57586. 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.