Alderbranch, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75839. The Survey maps it on the Slocum quadrangle. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Alderbranch within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Slocum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Slocum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Alderbranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,385 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 13 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	51
Natural	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	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 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 561
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 262

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Slocum	4.0 miles	11
Kossuth	4.3 miles	11
Crystal Lake	4.3 miles	10
Jarvis	4.6 miles	11
Deanwright	5.6 miles	10
Herring	5.7 miles	11
Elkhart	7.8 miles	10
Mound City	8.2 miles	10

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 Alderbranch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076398	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 1379330. 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.