BlockCentral High, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75925. It lies near Graveyard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Alto quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Alto quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Alto quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
208 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Central High between 1992 and 2020, burning about 897 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 | 138 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 5 September 1999 | Natural | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 522 |
| 3 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Central High | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q116178848 | 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 2034644. 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.