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Ada, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Willis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77378. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willis quadrangle.

Ada within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Ada between 1992 and 2020, burning about 736 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
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 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 20
4 September 2005Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 91
30 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 49
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 950
29 September 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
26 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Esperanza0.1 miles13
Mount Zion3.2 miles13
Willis4.4 miles13
Panorama Village7.4 miles13
Leonidas12.1 miles13
Beach12.2 miles14
Conroe12.3 miles14
Cut and Shoot12.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034808. 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.