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Antioch, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pecan Gap census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75432. The Survey maps it on the Pecan Gap quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Antioch within Delta 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

123 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,156 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN FIRE
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2890
3 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 64 & CR 3400
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7814 FM 904 FIRE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3132
19 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1530
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePG ROAD FIRE
17 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2040

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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
Gough2.3 miles9
Rattan2.8 miles9
Jot-Em-Down3.1 miles9
West Delta3.5 miles9
Yowell3.9 miles9
Price4.0 miles8
Klondike4.0 miles9
Needmore4.3 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 AntiochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710316The 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 1379354. 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.