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Carolina, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77334. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle.

Carolina within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Carolina between 1993 and 2020, burning about 763 acres in total. 7 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER 13:41
8 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8068
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 397
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service173

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Carolina: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Bentonite. 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
Milwhite Company Abandoned PitBentonitePast Producer
Jordan and Hutchinson OperationClayProducer
Riverside PlantClayProducer
Stutts Equipment Co OperationClayProducer
UnknownClayProducer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Gospel Hill3.3 miles12
Dodge3.3 miles13
Arizona3.8 miles13
Riverside4.1 miles13
Harmony6.0 miles13
Mount Morian6.8 miles13
Phelps7.2 miles13
Pine Prairie8.7 miles13

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 CarolinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705240The 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 1383058. 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.