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11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75943. The Survey maps it on the Douglass quadrangle.

County Line within Nacogdoches 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.

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of County Line between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,073 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 538
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6,550 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA RIVER BOTTOM FIRE
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 1999Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 525
16 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lilbert2.2 miles11
Douglass4.8 miles11
Looneyville5.7 miles11
Nat5.9 miles11
Dextra6.1 miles11
Sacul7.2 miles11
Winter Hill7.4 miles11
Cushing8.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1355164. 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.