BlockCottonwood Point, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pemiscot Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63830. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood Point quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Caruthersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Caruthersville quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Caruthersville quadrangle1:62500
- 1971 USGS Cottonwood Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Caruthersville quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cottonwood Point between 2005 and 2019, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tennessee Division of Forestry | FLOOD2019 |
| 13 February 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | GREAT RIVER/MOSS ISLAND |
| 11 November 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| McCarty | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Acorn Corner | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Kinfolks Ridge | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Cooter | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Indian Mound | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hall (historical) | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Micola | 6.6 miles | 9 |
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 Cottonwood Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28131896 | The 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 716372. 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.