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Easton, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 75641. The Survey maps it on the Easton quadrangle. 499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.

Easton within Rusk County

Population over time

2 figures

Easton fell from 510 to 499 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010510
2020499-11 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Easton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 8 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 burning201
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000257
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000245
5 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-0000172
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13-21529
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH HWY 149
4 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-0000239
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Mayflower4.1 miles16
Chalk Hill4.3 miles16
Tatum6.1 miles16
Stewart7.1 miles16
Monroe8.9 miles16
Dirgin9.0 miles16
Oak Hill9.8 miles16
New Hope10.4 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 EastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973802The 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 1356774. 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.