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Center Grove, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lovelady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75851. It stands on Box Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lovelady North quadrangle.

Center Grove within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Center Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,688 acres in total. 8 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution32 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 880
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 859
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 836
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 842
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 378
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALLEY GRASS FIRE
24 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 155

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Smith Grove2.0 miles9
Holly3.6 miles11
Lovelady4.3 miles9
Fodice4.4 miles11
Lone Pine5.3 miles9
Shady Grove5.6 miles11
Cut6.4 miles9
Hopewell6.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034897. 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.