Boles Home, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Quinlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75474. It stands on Bois d'arc Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Tawakoni quadrangle.

Boles Home within Hunt 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.

1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Quinlan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS West Tawakoni quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

311 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Boles Home between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,705 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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	219
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7873 FM 2101
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	660 CR 2266
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1667 PR 2541
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
6 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 276 & FM 751
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 337
30 September 2011	Smoking	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2001 CR 2246
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	39 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GREEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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
Quinlan	3.1 miles	12
Cash	3.3 miles	13
Hawk Cove	4.5 miles	13
Weiland	5.1 miles	6
Wieland	5.2 miles	6
West Tawakoni	5.4 miles	13
Harris	5.8 miles	13
Mount Bethel	7.0 miles	6

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.

Wikidata item Q122558402

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 1331025. 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.