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Folsom, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. The Survey maps it on the Arcadia quadrangle.

Folsom within Shelby 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Folsom between 1992 and 2018, burning about 499 acres in total. 3 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 220
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 208
28 September 2014Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service#7050
28 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Smoking30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 294

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Flat Fork3.3 miles12
Huber3.6 miles11
Lamar3.8 miles12
North Jericho5.5 miles12
Center5.8 miles12
Bobo6.1 miles11
Meldrum6.2 miles11
Tenaha6.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379782. 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.