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Aikin Grove, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Clarksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. It stands on Lynch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Aikin Grove within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

166 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Aikin Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,868 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Smoking2

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
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 133
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aikin Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Red River 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
Peters Prairie2.5 miles8
Sherry3.0 miles8
Clarksville3.8 miles8
McCoy4.3 miles8
Batesville5.0 miles8
Mabry5.4 miles8
Lone Star5.7 miles8
Cuthand6.1 miles8

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 Aikin GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48837079The 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 1379325. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.