Cypress, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72365. It stands on Iron Mines Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marked Tree quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cypress within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1941 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cypress (historical) between 2004 and 2006, burning about 37 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
Smoking	1
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
17 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2006	Smoking	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett 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
Cassidy	1.6 miles	11
Tulot	2.6 miles	11
Weed	3.4 miles	11
Judd Hill	3.7 miles	9
Payneway	3.9 miles	9
Hatchie Coon	4.0 miles	11
Marked Tree	4.0 miles	11
Donnick	4.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65773. 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.