BlockDurant, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Pollok census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75969. The Survey maps it on the Clawson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Clawson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Clawson quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Clawson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
366 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Durant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,490 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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 | 266 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS WOODS/HWY69N |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS WOODS/CHEVRON PIPELINE |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS WOODS/3226 HWY 69N |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS WOODS/CROSSTIMBERS |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 848 |
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 684 |
| 5 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Durant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530730 | 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 1381810. 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.