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Antioch, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75852. It stands on Crabs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sand Ridge quadrangle.

Antioch within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1996 and 2018, burning about 173 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 382
26 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 158
18 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4039
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE # 26
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3060
15 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALASKA LANE
20 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Midway3.5 miles10
Old Elwood4.9 miles10
Elwood6.1 miles10
Dingerville7.2 miles10
Connor8.9 miles10
Jenkins10.1 miles10
Cross Roads11.4 miles9
Madisonville13.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379352. 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.