Forest Chapel, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75411. The Survey maps it on the Pat Mayse Lake East quadrangle.

Forest Chapel within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1903 USGS Paris quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Grant quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Grant quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Pat Mayse Lake East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

190 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Forest Chapel between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,083 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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	88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE-HOSTETLER
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 649
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 650
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM1499N 1.0 MILES
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	#840 CR 36550
2 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 197
2 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	90211

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Razor	1.7 miles	14
Chicota	2.5 miles	14
Belk	5.4 miles	13
Garretts Bluff	5.5 miles	13
Midcity	5.7 miles	14
Arthur City	5.9 miles	14
Powderly	6.2 miles	14
Ragtown	7.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1357555. 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.