Bright Star, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75410. The Survey maps it on the Alba quadrangle.

Bright Star within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Alba quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

176 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Bright Star between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,025 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	124
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
4 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
24 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODLANDS FIRE
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE FIRE
20 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
2 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

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
Ginger	2.7 miles	15
Hogansville	2.9 miles	16
Colony	3.6 miles	15
Bellview	3.7 miles	15
Willow Springs	4.2 miles	14
Emory	5.6 miles	14
Rocky Point Center	5.9 miles	14
Shady Grove	6.2 miles	16

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 Bright Star	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q137845496	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 1378048. 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.