East Point, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cartwright quadrangle.

East Point within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Cartwright quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of East Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,612 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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	116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1

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
9 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS & TRAILER FIRE
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	65_09
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 346
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9252013
24 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEER FEEDER
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	72
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oak Grove	2.6 miles	12
Stout	2.8 miles	12
Ogburn	4.0 miles	14
Little Hope	4.2 miles	12
Cartwright	4.8 miles	12
Pine Mills	6.2 miles	12
Forest Hill	6.4 miles	13
Webster	6.7 miles	13

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 East Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119854015	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 1380844. 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.