Arnold, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blue Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75424. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pike quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Arnold within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pike quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

190 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Arnold between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,180 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
8 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1142 N BUS 78 FIRE
7 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 78 @ FM 981 FIRE
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR 1107 AND 1128
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4349 FM 903 HUNT CO FIRE
24 September 2013	Fireworks	22 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLACK GATE FIRE
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Frognot	2.8 miles	7
Snow Hill	3.0 miles	7
Fayburg	3.0 miles	7
Pike	3.9 miles	7
Blue Ridge	4.2 miles	7
Verona	5.7 miles	7
Farmersville	7.5 miles	10
Valdasta	7.6 miles	7

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 Arnold	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076403	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 1379366. 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.