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Fosterville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Frankston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75803. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Poynor quadrangle. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Fosterville within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Fosterville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,902 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIERCE
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7101
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOVERTY HILL
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism128 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 216
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 584
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS FIRE
23 September 2013Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGLADOAKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Fosterville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Poynor DepositsIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Brushy Creek3.7 miles13
Elmwood6.3 miles13
Frankston6.4 miles15
Pert7.1 miles13
Elmtown7.9 miles13
Bois d'Arc8.2 miles12
Bradford8.2 miles12
Todd City9.6 miles10

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 FostervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076483The 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 1378317. 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.