Cornett, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75568. It stands on Prairie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Cornett within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1914 USGS Daingerfeild quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS Daingerfield quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

233 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Cornett between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,920 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 36 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	126
Arson/incendiarism	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Natural	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
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 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6307
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6235
9 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Nickleberry	3.1 miles	11
Marietta	3.5 miles	11
Bethlehem	3.6 miles	11
Dalton	5.3 miles	11
Cusseta	6.6 miles	11
Carterville	6.8 miles	10
Almira	7.1 miles	10
Bryans Mill	8.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Cornett	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125156491	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 1378163. 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.