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Cozahome, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72639. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cozahome quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Cozahome within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Cozahome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,074 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 125 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/incendiarism125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning26
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTRASH
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism66 acresBuffalo National RiverTRAILHEAD
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism32 acresBuffalo National RiverSAWLOG
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism40 acresBuffalo National RiverLEON
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism20 acresBuffalo National RiverGENE
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Cozahome: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orville Pemberton placeManganese, Quartz, Iron, Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
TomahawkCopperPast Producer
Good Luck ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Savers ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
ChurchillZincPast Producer
Dillard ProspectZincOccurrence
Mays & RedwineZincPast Producer
RubyZincProspect
Silver RunZincPast Producer
WinchesterZincProspect

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cozahome in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCozahome-Limbs were blown down by the wind.
March 2017HailCozahome-no account filed
March 2017HailCozahome-no account filed
July 1996HailCozahome-no account filed
April 1996HailCozahome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Evening Star2.6 miles16
Harriet3.7 miles15
Lone Pine5.9 miles15
Fairview6.9 miles15
Morning Star7.0 miles15
Rock Springs7.1 miles15
Barren Hollow7.4 miles15
Maumee7.7 miles17

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 CozahomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5180121The 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 57596. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.