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Adsul, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Call census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75956. It stands on Whitman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bleakwood quadrangle.

Adsul within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Adsul between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,314 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 97 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 burning294
Arson/incendiarism97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAM ROSEMAN
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
8 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOOD FIRE
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON-957
30 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 325
30 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Harrells1.7 miles9
Trout Creek2.5 miles9
Call2.6 miles9
Bleakwood3.6 miles9
Sandjack7.2 miles12
Howards7.9 miles9
Salem8.0 miles9
Pine Grove9.0 miles9

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 AdsulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196299The 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 1379322. 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.