Cow Lake, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cow Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72347. The Survey maps it on the Beedeville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cow Lake within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Beedeville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cow Lake (historical) between 1999 and 2010, burning about 226 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
19 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 November 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	BEEDEVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Eightmile (historical)	3.0 miles	10
Beedeville	3.4 miles	10
McFadden	4.0 miles	10
Algoa	4.6 miles	10
Balch	5.1 miles	10
Stringers Mill	5.5 miles	10
Blackville	6.0 miles	10
Midway	7.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61810. 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.