Bridges Chapel, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Talco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75455. The Survey maps it on the Talco quadrangle.

Bridges Chapel within Titus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Talco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

260 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Bridges Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,708 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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	186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 September 2006	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	263 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 354
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-972
27 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	12-092
26 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	12-955
25 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	14-67
24 September 2002	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 200

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus 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
White Oak	2.8 miles	9
Green Hill	2.8 miles	10
Marshall Springs	3.2 miles	8
West New Hope	3.8 miles	8
Midway	5.4 miles	8
Gladewater	5.5 miles	10
Maple Springs	6.9 miles	9
Farmers Academy	7.2 miles	8

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 Bridges Chapel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122593838	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 2034758. 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.