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Five Points, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75167. The Survey maps it on the Boz quadrangle.

Five Points within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

78 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2006 and 2017, burning about 839 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service009-181
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-196
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-193
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service010-203
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-177
12 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-197
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service012-203
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Forreston2.4 miles9
Boz2.5 miles11
Bell Branch2.7 miles10
Lumkins3.1 miles9
Nelson3.4 miles9
Nena4.1 miles9
Nash4.8 miles9
Maypearl6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378297. 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.