Cowpens, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montgomery-Smalley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72069. It stands on Prairie Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Bay SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cowpens within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Indian Bay SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1970 USGS Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cowpens (historical) between 1995 and 2017, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	HIGHWAY 1
24 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	WILLOW LAKE LEVEE
30 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	INDIAN BAY
21 October 2007	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 1 BOUNDARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Indian Bay	3.0 miles	16
Connells Point	3.5 miles	16
Cross Roads	5.3 miles	16
Creigh	5.9 miles	16
Mayos	7.1 miles	16
Ragtown	13.3 miles	14
Lawrenceville	13.4 miles	14
Deep Elm	14.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61120. 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.