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Bor-ley Heights, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Beaumont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77708. The Survey maps it on the Voth quadrangle.

Bor-ley Heights within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Bor-ley Heights between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,489 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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 burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIETH RD
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/TRAM
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 211
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/EQUIPMENT/TRAILER
2 September 2013Debris and open burning136 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9166
2 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service105/DEBRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Rosedale Acres0.9 miles14
Voth1.1 miles14
Mount Evergreen1.1 miles14
Gilburg1.7 miles14
Rosedale2.4 miles14
Helbig3.4 miles14
Bevil Oaks4.4 miles12
Pine Crest4.6 miles19

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 Q122544234The 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 1331081. 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.