Cotton Plant is a city in southern Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States.

In 1820, when settlers from neighboring states first came to the Cotton Plant area, it was covered in dense timber and cane.

As a small town began to take shape at the site of present-day Cotton Plant, those settlers initially named their community Richmond.

In 1908, the newly completed Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad opened up the timber industry about Cotton Plant, bringing the Standard Stave and Hoop Mill, sawmills, woodworking factories, and a veneer plant in subsequent years.

Hit hard by the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration was tasked with installing a water and sewer system in town in 1935.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.

In 2014 the Augusta school district planned to close Cotton Plant Elementary and the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) approved the closure.