BlockCorinth, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75831. It stands on Whites Branch. The Survey maps it on the Robbins quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Jewett quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Robbins quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 1993 and 2014, burning about 552 acres in total. 2 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2011 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VERNON GORE |
| 12 July 1998 | Smoking | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TONG |
| 21 April 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | TAR KILN |
| 1 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 96 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 1993 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ANDERWALD |
| 22 February 1996 | Debris and open burning | 77 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| North Salem | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Flo | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Springs | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Buffalo | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Jewett | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Friendship | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Centerville | 8.0 miles | 9 |
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 Corinth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5170625 | 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 1379589. 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.