Carson, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ravenna-Telephone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75488. The Survey maps it on the Lamasco quadrangle.

Carson within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bonham quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Lamasco quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Carson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,378 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
27 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CARSON FIRE
22 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOIS-D-ARC BRIDGE
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLY CLYDE BLACKWELL
31 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEN WHITE
23 August 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JAMES KIRBY
22 August 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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
Hudsonville	1.9 miles	6
Dotson	3.0 miles	6
Lamasco	3.3 miles	6
Pettigrew	4.0 miles	6
Post Oak	4.2 miles	6
Allens Chapel	4.5 miles	12
Selfs	4.9 miles	12
Telephone	5.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381600. 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.