Elmina, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the New Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77340. The Survey maps it on the New Waverly quadrangle.

Elmina within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS New Waverly quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS New Waverly quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Elmina between 1992 and 2018, burning about 771 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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	61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 832
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
27 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 932
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 204
22 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
New Waverly	1.6 miles	13
Moore Grove	3.6 miles	13
Barado	4.5 miles	13
Hawthorne	4.6 miles	13
Pine Valley	7.1 miles	13
Bath	8.2 miles	13
Pine Hill	9.5 miles	14
Phelps	9.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122591051

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 1379718. 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.