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Bois d'Arc, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montalba-Tennessee Colony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75803. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Bois d'Arc within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

147 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Bois d'Arc between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 2 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 burning90
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7123
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIERCE
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADFORDVFD
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 221
26 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACR453 ACR454
22 September 2014Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service404
21 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bois d'Arc in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997HailBois D Arc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Bradford2.2 miles12
Springfield3.4 miles12
Blackfoot4.4 miles12
Ward4.5 miles12
Montalba5.8 miles13
Elmwood7.0 miles13
Brushy Creek7.3 miles13
Elmtown7.9 miles13

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 Bois d'ArcAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2908957The 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 2034745. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.