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Easley Chapel, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Grapeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75844. It stands on Boggy Glade Branch. The Survey maps it on the Weches quadrangle.

Easley Chapel within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Easley Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,129 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILD FIRE
8 September 2013Fireworks4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7117
8 September 1993Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSNAG
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasBRACKEN CREEK
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
30 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIALVILLE WOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Bluff City (historical)2.1 miles12
Weches2.6 miles12
Burrantown4.4 miles11
Bobbittville (historical)5.1 miles10
Liberty Hill6.0 miles10
Glover (historical)7.5 miles10
Creath7.6 miles11
McKinleyville (historical)7.7 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122593490The 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 1377449. 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.