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Echo, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77632. It lies near Jacks Island. The Survey maps it on the Echo quadrangle.

Echo within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Echo between 1998 and 2015, burning about 307 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
5 September 2013Fireworks97 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9171
22 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 255
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service490 V 9
28 March 2008Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
24 March 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 179

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Echo: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
G.T.M. Sand PitSilicaProducer
Orange PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Teal PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerSand
Alpha Portland Clay PitClayProducer
Orange PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Ridgecrest1.2 miles18
Little Cypress1.5 miles13
West Bluff2.1 miles18
Brownwood2.6 miles19
Pine Grove3.3 miles16
Kinard Estates3.4 miles13
Reese3.5 miles13
Pinehurst3.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335070. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.