Colthorp, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Kennard-Ratcliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. It stands on Lee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kennard quadrangle.

Colthorp within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1951 USGS Kennard quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Kennard quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Colthorp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 722 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 26 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
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	26
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7119
20 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	HORSECAMP 2
20 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	HORSECAMP
19 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SAWMILL #2
15 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	562 FIRE
6 August 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SAWMILL
30 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 343

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Allen Chapel	0.4 miles	10
Ratcliff	1.7 miles	11
Kennard	2.0 miles	10
Fog Town	2.4 miles	10
Hagerville	3.8 miles	11
Stubblefield	4.2 miles	11
Mount Vernon	4.3 miles	12
Tadmor	4.5 miles	11

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 Q122553086

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 1377452. 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.