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Camden, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75934. The Survey maps it on the Camden quadrangle. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Camden within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Camden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 933 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8069
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8079
7 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2005Smoking7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 189
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 236
18 September 2020Debris and open burning7.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLK 15:33
11 September 2019Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOLK 19:55
9 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camden: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1997Thunderstorm WindCamden$5,000no account filed
March 2005HailCamden$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lily Island1.6 miles12
Barnes2.6 miles12
Barnum3.8 miles12
Moscow4.8 miles13
Hortense5.2 miles12
Pluck6.5 miles14
Snow Hill6.6 miles13
Pleasant Hill7.2 miles11

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 CamdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5025715The 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 1353595. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.