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East Mountain, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gladewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75645. It stands on Loden Branch. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle.

East Mountain within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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

631 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 631 fires within 5 miles of East Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,937 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 36 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 burning332
Missing data/not specified/undetermined124
Power generation/transmission/distribution58
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking17
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5
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 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service91
9 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1802 N. WHITE OAK RD
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6177
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART ST
8 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service115
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur 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
Glenwood3.3 miles12
West Mountain3.4 miles12
Union Grove3.8 miles12
Pattonfield5.2 miles12
Phillips5.7 miles12
Mings Chapel6.4 miles12
Piedmont7.5 miles12
Indian Rock7.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1334967. 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.