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County Line, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75472. The Survey maps it on the Emory North quadrangle.

County Line within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of County Line between 2004 and 2016, burning about 1,174 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1

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
8 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 119
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 599
7 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 275 SOUTH
29 August 2005Natural450 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH TX - 9
26 August 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1312 CR 1137
17 August 2005Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 280
12 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1312 CR 1137
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHIGGER RIDGE RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Dougherty1.6 miles14
Richland2.6 miles14
Shady Grove5.3 miles16
Point5.4 miles14
Shotgun Crossing5.6 miles16
Prospect5.7 miles14
Poole6.6 miles16
Emory7.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034780. 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.