Eureka, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75481. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell Creek quadrangle.

Eureka within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mitchell Creek quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,446 acres in total. 1 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
6 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	721 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HALSBORO COMPLEX
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 37S GRASS FIRE 9/30
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 196 GRASS FIRE 9/25
18 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 196 FIRE 9/18
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 1028
26 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2003	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 214
14 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 196 FIRE2 8/14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 2 storm reports in 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2018	Flash Flood	Eureka	-	Many low lying, poor drainage areas were flooded across Franklin County.
February 2018	Flood	Eureka	-	Widespread heavy rainfall of ten to in excess of twelve inches across the Sulphur River basin of Northeast Texas during the final week of February resulted in rapid rises on the Sulphur River north of Talco, with the river cresting at 26.81 feet during the early evening hours on February 22nd. This resulted in major backwater flooding along the river, with numerous secondary roads (and State Highway 37) flooded across Southern Red River and Northern Franklin Counties.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Hagansport	3.1 miles	8
Lakeview	4.9 miles	8
Oakdale	5.2 miles	8
Daphne	10.9 miles	8
Mount Vernon	12.0 miles	8
Union	14.9 miles	8
Majors	17.6 miles	9
Hopewell	17.8 miles	9

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 Eureka	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q112967974	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 1379741. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.