Center Point, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beckville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75691. The Survey maps it on the Harris Chapel quadrangle.

Center Point within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Darco quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1983 USGS Harris Chapel quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,324 acres in total. 10 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 burning	89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORACE JAMES
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH HWY 149
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CORRINE YOUNG
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6256

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola 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
Harris Chapel	2.6 miles	13
Sterrett Hill	5.0 miles	13
Arbor	6.1 miles	16
Beckville	6.3 miles	14
Grand Bluff	7.8 miles	13
Horton	9.6 miles	13
Walnut Grove	9.8 miles	13
Riderville	10.7 miles	14

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 Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705182	The 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 2034842. 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.