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Danville, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kilgore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75662. It stands on Bighead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore NE quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Danville within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

421 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 421 fires within 5 miles of Danville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,030 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 66 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 burning204
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism66
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service251 FM 2011
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 206
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 487
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6182
6 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 205
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000285

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Danville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Kilgore Ceramics Corp PlantClayProducer
Norton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Bitulithic PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregg 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
Rolling Meadows1.3 miles16
Fredonia1.6 miles16
Kinsloe2.3 miles16
Kilgore2.8 miles15
Elderville5.6 miles16
Lakeport6.5 miles16
Greggton6.9 miles16
Liberty City7.1 miles15

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 DanvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076455The 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 1378201. 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.