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El Caney, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Grapeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75844. It stands on Mayes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grapeland quadrangle.

El Caney within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of El Caney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 398
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESLEY BRADLEY
7 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARKET STREET
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
30 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 163
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKOWN
28 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIGHTMIRE

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
Hays Spring2.7 miles9
Oldham3.0 miles11
Latexo3.4 miles11
Grapeland3.7 miles11
Refuge6.7 miles10
San Pedro6.8 miles11
Nottingham Woods7.3 miles10
Germany7.8 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 Q122559955The 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 1377445. 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.