Corinth, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Jo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76265. The Survey maps it on the Bonita quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Corinth within Montague County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1905 USGS Montague quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Bonita quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,792 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	5
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2012	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BORDER GRASS FIRE
29 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015089
9 August 2011	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAPS CORNER FIRE
25 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	677 CAPPS CORNER
24 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	81 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAILEY RD
22 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	3862 CR 435
2 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010054
13 August 2012	Smoking	225 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COTTONWOOD CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague 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
Capps Corner	3.0 miles	9
Illinois Bend	3.1 miles	13
Nocona Hills	6.8 miles	10
Bonita	7.1 miles	9
Spanish Fort	8.6 miles	10
Saint Jo	10.3 miles	10
Valley View	10.5 miles	9
Rowland	11.2 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 Q5170631	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 1379590. 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.