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Center Point, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75686. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Center Point within Camp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,260 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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 burning157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1

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 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6302
8 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1140
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4510
5 September 2005Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 341
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1140
30 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6166

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camp County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Center Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Camp 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
Ebenezer2.7 miles12
Holly Springs2.8 miles12
Spring Hill4.8 miles8
Pecan Heights6.5 miles8
Crossroads7.3 miles12
Pittsburg7.5 miles12
Pine8.2 miles12
Macedonia9.5 miles8

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 Center PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5059329The 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 2034805. 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.