Concord, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Zavalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75980. It stands on Little Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boykin Spring quadrangle.

Concord within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1931 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Boykin Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,486 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 51 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	51
Power generation/transmission/distribution	21
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	POULAND ROAD 2
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	POULAND ROAD
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
30 September 2007	Smoking	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 81
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SANDY POINT
29 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 204
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	HWY 63
2 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Parker Point	2.6 miles	13
Plum Ridge	4.3 miles	13
River Ridge	9.2 miles	13
Martin	9.5 miles	16
Zavalla	9.5 miles	15
Nancy	9.5 miles	16
Dolan	9.8 miles	16
Monterey	10.6 miles	15

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 Concord	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530723	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 1381686. 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.