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Fair Oaks, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Personville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75838. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

Fair Oaks within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

87 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Fair Oaks between 1996 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 1 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM/A GRASS FIRE HWY 164
4 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 751 @ FM 489
26 September 2014Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW 4200 (SW 4180)
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service107 CR 793 DONIE
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW CR 2090
13 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 750 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fair Oaks: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. 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
Teague PitKaolinPast Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Oaks in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2020HailFair Oaks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Personville2.4 miles8
Farrar2.5 miles7
Lost Prairie3.5 miles7
New Hope5.4 miles7
Center6.4 miles8
LaSalle6.7 miles8
Old Union7.9 miles7
Fallon8.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380849. 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.

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.