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Coit, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kosse census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76687. The Survey maps it on the Odds quadrangle.

Coit within Limestone 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.

Fires near this place

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Coit between 2005 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service903201702
11 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8282019
16 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
14 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8142017
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7082017
6 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
25 July 2018Smoking12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7252018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buffalo Mop2.8 miles6
Odds3.0 miles6
Pleasant Grove3.6 miles6
Little Elm4.3 miles6
Thornton5.6 miles6
Kosse5.6 miles6
Big Hill5.8 miles6
Davis Prairie8.1 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379569. 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.