BlockAiken, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Aiken-Neuville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. The Survey maps it on the Mount Herman quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Martinsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Mount Herman quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Aiken between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 224 |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2013 | Fireworks | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7102 |
| 8 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHELBY 16:30 |
| 5 August 2013 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7071 |
| 30 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aiken in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Hail | Aiken | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in the community of Grisby, Texas. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | - | Trees were downed on Hwy 7 near the community of Aiken, Texas. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Aiken | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Aiken | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110903597 | 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 1350911. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.