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Four Corners, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77302. It lies near Crater Hill. The Survey maps it on the Conroe quadrangle.

Four Corners within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,926 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 196
6 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2015Other causes2.6 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4525

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Youens1.6 miles13
Waukegan2.6 miles13
Beach2.7 miles14
Cut and Shoot3.1 miles13
Wigginsville3.5 miles13
Conroe4.0 miles14
Grangerland4.0 miles13
Groceville4.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2035016. 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.