BlockBethel, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75640. It stands on Clark Branch. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
344 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,628 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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 | 253 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 91 |
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 231 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17-0318 |
| 7 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6176 |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377999. 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.