Cherokee Landing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Selman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75757. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berryville quadrangle.

Cherokee Landing within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1946 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Bullard quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1973 USGS Berryville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,905 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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	145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	8
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR3501 (130)
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS/FIRE FROM # 124 (132)
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANDERSON COUNTY FIRE
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7106
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 576
28 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE AT SPILLWAY (092)
28 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 571

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Cuney	2.2 miles	15
Reese	3.3 miles	15
Larissa	5.5 miles	14
Cove Springs	5.7 miles	14
Corine	5.9 miles	10
Church Hill	7.6 miles	10
Mount Selman	7.7 miles	14
Pomona	8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122589836

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 1378118. 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.