Bethany, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the De Berry-Deadwood census division. The Survey maps it on the Panola quadrangle. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

Bethany within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1943 USGS Waskom quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Waskom quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Panola quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Bethany between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,060 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS/WOODS
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE LOS ALTOS
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RABBIT ROAD COMMAND
8 September 1999	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 2013	Smoking	5.9 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Panola

Every fire recorded in Panola 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
Panola	2.8 miles	15
De Berry	8.1 miles	13
DeBerry	8.1 miles	13
Centennial	10.2 miles	17
Midyett	11.6 miles	17
Horton	13.6 miles	13
River Hill	13.6 miles	17
Deadwood	16.9 miles	17

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 Bethany	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4897703	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 2034822. 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.