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Coke, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75431. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Grove quadrangle.

Coke within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

174 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Coke between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 3 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 burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
25 September 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9252014
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6194
19 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Coke: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A P Green OperationFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Unnamed PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coke in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Thunderstorm WindCoke$50,000A carport and a front porch was blown off a house. A tree fell through the house as well.
January 1994HailCoke$50,000Hail damaged cars, roofs, and windows.
March 2012Flash FloodCoke-Farm to Market 69 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Pleasant Grove2.0 miles12
Cartwright5.0 miles12
Webster5.8 miles13
Forest Hill6.2 miles13
Gilbreth6.9 miles15
Yantis7.4 miles15
Winnsboro8.0 miles13
Gamblin8.2 miles15

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 CokeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119854030The 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 1378141. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.