Cogburn Dipping Vat

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Cogburn Dipping Vat is a historic former cattle dipping facility in Ouachita National Forest, west of Black Spring, Arkansas. It is located about 19 metres (62 ft) west of Forest Road 73 and south of a perennial stream.”
Wikipedia article Cogburn Dipping Vat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2006 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Forest Service Rd. 73, E of Montgomery County Rd 1 S of its jct. with AR 8, Black Spring, 71960
When was it listed? June 2006
Category. structure
Also known as. Dip That Tick:Texas Tick Fever Eradication in Arkansas MPS
Township. Black Springs township
National Register reference number. 06000467 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Cogburn Dipping Vat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,716 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 11 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
Natural	22
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Ouachita National Forest	COX SPRINGS
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Natural	563 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEECH CREEK
14 September 2011	Natural	705 acres	Ouachita National Forest	CHRISOPHER MOUNTAIN
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Ouachita National Forest	ELROD

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Cogburn Dipping Vat: 11 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Slate, Dimension, Barium-Barite, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Abernathy Sand & Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hawkins Deposit	Iron	Unknown
C.F. Saviac Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Unknown
Fancy Hill	Barium-Barite	Unknown	Surface
Polk Creek Mt Prospect	Barium-Barite, Manganese	Unknown
Unknown	Slate, Dimension	Unknown
Unknown	Silica	Unknown
Unknown	Silica	Unknown
Monroe-Knold Mine	Manganese	Unknown
Robert Porter Prospect	Manganese	Prospect	1916

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Norman Town Square	5.9 miles	1993
	Caddo Valley Academy Complex	6.0 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000467 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.