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Elm Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rusk census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75785. The Survey maps it on the Atoy quadrangle.

Elm Grove within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,640 acres in total. 3 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 burning180
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR1418
7 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDON PARSONS
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service204 @ 110
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 22
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service110 @ 204
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elm Grove: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Banks and CherokeeIronUnknown
Citizens State BankIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Ponta2.2 miles11
Gallatin2.7 miles12
Stryker Creek Junction4.0 miles11
Shady Grove4.5 miles11
Turney5.6 miles12
Rusk5.8 miles11
Lone Star6.6 miles11
Circle6.9 miles11

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 Elm GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110363169The 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 1378256. 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.