Burrantown, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Grapeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75844. It stands on Copperas Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ratcliff quadrangle.

Burrantown within Houston 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.

1950 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Burrantown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,479 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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 1995	Natural	138 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	WALNUT CREEK
8 September 2013	Fireworks	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7117
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BRACKEN CREEK
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIALVILLE WOODS FIRE
28 September 2002	Smoking	5.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	CREATH
25 September 2000	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 425
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RFD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Creath	3.2 miles	11
Weches	3.7 miles	12
Easley Chapel	4.4 miles	12
Bobbittville (historical)	4.4 miles	10
Bluff City (historical)	4.6 miles	12
Tadmor	4.7 miles	11
Glover (historical)	5.5 miles	10
Plain	5.8 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 Burrantown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120643499	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 1381557. 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.