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Bevilport, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75951. It lies near Frank Camp Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Pace Hill quadrangle.

Bevilport within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

124 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Bevilport between 1993 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 140 GRASS FIRE
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 129
6 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 193
30 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service034-Q-4
28 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8085
18 September 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bevilport: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Plant No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Science Hall4.4 miles13
Homer4.5 miles15
Curtis4.8 miles13
Beech Grove5.0 miles13
Ferguson7.8 miles13
Ebenezer7.9 miles13
Spring Hill8.3 miles13
Jasper8.4 miles9

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 BevilportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122589024The 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 1383669. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.