Bois d'Arc, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75472. It stands on Hooker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Oak South quadrangle.

Bois d'Arc within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Emory quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

34 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Bois d'Arc between 2003 and 2017, burning about 368 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 2131803
11 September 2013	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROLLING HILLS FIRE
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRON HORSE
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	155 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WIND POIN NORTH BRANCH - 110
28 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH TX - 4
27 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GF 5046731
21 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 2105140
11 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID 106102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Hooker Ridge	0.7 miles	13
East Tawakoni	2.3 miles	13
Hermits Cove	3.7 miles	13
Woosley	4.2 miles	13
Point	4.6 miles	14
Flats	6.3 miles	14
Richland	7.3 miles	14
Prospect	7.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034767. 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.