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Arbor, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Hick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Arbor within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Arbor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,481 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-260
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011317
9 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
9 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011310
5 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4,931 acresLivingston AreaARBOR FIRE
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arbor in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2012Thunderstorm WindArbor$2,000Trees blown down in Arbor.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Berea2.9 miles10
Hopewell4.3 miles10
Shady Grove4.4 miles11
Plainview5.2 miles11
Hickory Creek6.0 miles12
Center Hill6.4 miles11
Druso6.5 miles10
Kennard7.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381333. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.