Allens Chapel, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Honey Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75492. It stands on Yoakum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Selfs quadrangle.

Allens Chapel within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Honey Grove quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Selfs quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

102 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Allens Chapel between 2001 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR2870
22 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOIS-D-ARC BRIDGE
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GOLF COURSE ROAD FIRE
12 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARRY HAMMET
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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
Allen Point	2.8 miles	12
Pettigrew	3.1 miles	6
Spring Hill	3.7 miles	6
Selfs	3.9 miles	12
Carson	4.5 miles	6
Honey Grove	5.2 miles	12
Lannius	5.8 miles	6
Windom	6.0 miles	12

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 Allens Chapel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122570436	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 2034676. 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.