Cow Mound, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72036. It stands on Cache Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Cotton Plant quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cow Mound within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1935 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1968 USGS Cotton Plant quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cow Mound (historical) between 1992 and 2004, burning about 170 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	3
Smoking	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
31 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DEAD SNAG
22 April 1996	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIE
8 February 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIE
19 February 2004	Smoking	10 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	AUGUSTA CAMP
9 November 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIETNC
29 October 2000	Debris and open burning	156 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HOWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Dixie	1.8 miles	13
Daggett	1.9 miles	13
Maberry	2.6 miles	13
Shady Grove	3.3 miles	13
Little Dixie	3.8 miles	13
Kramer (historical)	4.1 miles	13
Becton	4.7 miles	13
McClelland	4.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78898. 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.