Cotton Town, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Galla Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72834. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casa quadrangle.

Cotton Town within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1888 USGS Dardanelle #4 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Casa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Town between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2004	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Smoking	45 acres	Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge	HOLLA-1
23 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge	LODGE LAKE ROAD
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cotton Town: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone. 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
Fitch Prospect	Manganese	Prospect
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yell 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
New Neely	1.5 miles	18
Lakeview	2.1 miles	19
Fowler	3.0 miles	19
Carden Bottoms	3.2 miles	19
Old Neely	3.4 miles	19
Whitehall	3.9 miles	18
Centerville	6.1 miles	18
Prosperity	6.7 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57587. 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.