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Antioch, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gary City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75633. It lies near Sixmile Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gary quadrangle.

Antioch within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 424 acres in total. 13 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 burning92
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1132 U.S. HWY 59 SOUTH
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS 9-4-11
30 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1332 LAWRENCE STREET
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2517 @ RIVER BRIDGE
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceU.S. 59 SOUTH
29 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceF.M. 10 @ C.R. 421
29 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1512 S.E. LOOP 59
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1259 F.M. HWY 10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola 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
Pleasant Ridge3.3 miles13
Shady Grove4.1 miles13
Carthage5.1 miles13
Hudson Mast5.9 miles13
Daniels6.0 miles13
Woods6.6 miles17
Gary7.3 miles13
Deadwood7.4 miles17

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 Q134877763The 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 2034936. 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.