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Bethlehem, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75566. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Bethlehem within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

288 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Bethlehem between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,161 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 39 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 burning167
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJEMMY HARGETT
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6235
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOPOHAN GRASS FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUGH MEADOWS FIRE
29 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWRIGHT PASTURE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Nickleberry0.4 miles11
Marietta2.3 miles11
Cusseta3.1 miles11
Cornett3.6 miles11
Almira4.9 miles10
Carterville5.9 miles10
Dalton5.9 miles11
Bryans Mill6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378004. 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.