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Cusseta, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75566. It stands on Cusseta Mountains. The Survey maps it on the Bryans Mill quadrangle.

Cusseta within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

277 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Cusseta between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,361 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 33 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 burning149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Fireworks1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJEMMY HARGETT
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM995
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6236
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6295
3 September 2000Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 355
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cusseta: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bryans MillSulfurProducer
Shell Oil Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bethlehem3.1 miles11
Nickleberry3.5 miles11
Almira4.3 miles10
Marietta4.6 miles11
Gum Springs5.2 miles10
Red Hill5.3 miles11
Bryans Mill5.5 miles11
Douglassville5.9 miles10

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 CussetaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890757The 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 1378195. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.