Clinton, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Caddo Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75135. It stands on Middle Caddo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenville SW quadrangle. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Clinton within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Greenville SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

193 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,230 acres in total. 3 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	102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	69
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 697 & COUNTY LINE
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011073
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 6
23 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011119
22 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 2712 & CR 2706
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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
Pleasant Valley	2.4 miles	9
Caddo Mills	2.6 miles	6
Floyd	3.2 miles	7
Concord	4.3 miles	6
Hendrix	5.6 miles	6
Wagner	5.9 miles	7
Mineral Heights	6.4 miles	6
Meadowview	6.6 miles	6

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 Clinton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28912745	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 1332995. 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.