Barnum, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Corrigan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75939. It stands on Dabbs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Camden quadrangle.

Barnum within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Camden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Camden quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Barnum between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,026 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	24
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
9 September 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8069
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIVINGSTON - 879
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8079
7 September 1993	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2005	Smoking	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 189
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 311
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 185
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 236

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Lily Island	3.4 miles	12
Barnes	3.8 miles	12
Camden	3.8 miles	12
Pluck	5.9 miles	14
Hortense	7.0 miles	12
Pleasant Hill	8.0 miles	11
Snow Hill	8.0 miles	13
Moscow	8.4 miles	13

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 Barnum	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196351	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 1379392. 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.