Center Point, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. The Survey maps it on the Centralia quadrangle.

Center Point within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 986 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2009	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 245
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 523
30 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 164
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
18 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
8 August 2019	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRINITY 15:12
8 August 1996	Natural	20 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	NOGALUS
6 August 2006	Natural	17 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	NORTH POSSUM WALK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity 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
Nogalus	0.6 miles	11
Centralia	2.8 miles	11
Crecy	4.7 miles	10
Friendship	5.7 miles	10
Centerville	6.3 miles	10
Apple Springs	7.2 miles	10
Helmic	8.0 miles	10
Pennington	9.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034853. 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.