Bath, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77340. It stands on McDonald Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moore Grove quadrangle.

Bath within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Moore Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Moore Grove quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Bath between 1992 and 2020, burning about 907 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WALKER 15:55
4 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 844
29 September 2011	Natural	7.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 954
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 47
19 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 920
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	2.3 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	WHEELER
4 August 1998	Natural	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	MEADOWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Moore Grove	4.6 miles	13
San Jacinto	5.5 miles	14
Goshen	5.5 miles	14
Pine Hill	6.7 miles	14
Galilee	7.1 miles	10
Barado	7.9 miles	13
Elmina	8.2 miles	13
New Waverly	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 Bath	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705238	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 1381362. 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.