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Campti, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. It stands on Cooney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shelbyville quadrangle.

Campti within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Campti between 1993 and 2017, burning about 416 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 585
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 646
1 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 440
6 August 1998Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 320

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Antioch2.8 miles13
Sardis3.3 miles13
James4.6 miles13
Shelbyville4.9 miles13
Webb6.3 miles12
New Harmony6.7 miles14
North Jericho6.7 miles12
Jackson7.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379497. 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.