Arthur City, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Powderly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75411. It stands on Sanders Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pat Mayse Lake East quadrangle. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Arthur City within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Grant quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Grant quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Pat Mayse Lake East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

240 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Arthur City between 2003 and 2019, burning about 6,370 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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	112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	82
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE--1017 CR 45300
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 43
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR44150
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM3298
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR36990
2 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	90211

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Midcity	2.0 miles	14
Chicota	3.4 miles	14
Powderly	4.2 miles	14
Slate Shoals	5.3 miles	10
Forest Chapel	5.9 miles	14
Razor	7.2 miles	14
Medill	7.4 miles	10
Novice	8.6 miles	10

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 Arthur City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4798274	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 1351290. 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.