Bryce, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mount Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75975. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle.

Bryce within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mount Enterprise quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Bryce between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,556 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 478
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RENEE ELLIOTT
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 222
28 September 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2015	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7110
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Caledonia	3.1 miles	11
Lawsonville	3.9 miles	11
Concord	4.4 miles	11
Arlam	6.4 miles	11
Brachfield	7.8 miles	12
Mount Enterprise	8.2 miles	11
Minden	9.4 miles	12
Pinehill	10.0 miles	12

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 Bryce	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116275089	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 2034730. 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.