Beulah, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Diboll census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75901. The Survey maps it on the Bald Hill quadrangle.

Beulah within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1932 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bald Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

92 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1993 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 653
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANGELINA 14:12
22 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7116
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 252
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANGELINA 15:23
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Prairie Grove	2.9 miles	13
Bald Hill	3.9 miles	13
Shady Grove	4.4 miles	11
Diboll	6.0 miles	11
Burke	6.2 miles	11
Shawnee Prairie	6.6 miles	15
Rutland	6.7 miles	11
Homer	7.3 miles	14

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 Beulah	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530720	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 1379414. 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.