Boynton, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Zavalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. The Survey maps it on the Zavalla quadrangle.

Boynton within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1931 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Boynton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,031 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 42 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SMITH BRANCH
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	PICKARD
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	C-48
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	DEAD MAN
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	TWICE
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 248
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	CHENEY
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	STANLEY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Monterey	1.9 miles	15
Ora	2.9 miles	13
Shawnee	4.0 miles	15
Oak Flat	5.2 miles	14
Zavalla	5.3 miles	15
Shawnee Prairie	7.2 miles	15
Huntington	8.3 miles	14
Manning	8.8 miles	15

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 Boynton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530721	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 1379451. 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.