Camp Seale, 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 77351. The Survey maps it on the Jacks Creek South quadrangle.

Camp Seale 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Segno quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Jacks Creek South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Camp Seale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 565 acres in total. 4 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Big Thicket National Park	RUBY
25 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 200
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	POLK 17:01
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8086
1 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	8074
29 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 807
21 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	POLK 10:30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oak Shade	3.2 miles	12
Dallardsville	3.9 miles	12
Segno	4.2 miles	12
Holly Grove	6.6 miles	12
Camp Ruby	10.6 miles	12
Indian Springs	11.3 miles	12
New Camp Ruby	11.5 miles	12
Ace	11.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122556474

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 2035015. 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.