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Fox Landing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Colmesneil-Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75938. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pace Hill quadrangle.

Fox Landing within Tyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Fox Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,277 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 72 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
Arson/incendiarism72
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 876
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 870
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasC-87
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 674
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service034-Q-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tyler 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 Fox Landing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tyler 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
Rockland7.8 miles16
Cima9.4 miles12
Emille10.3 miles11
Haralson Lakes11.1 miles12
Colmesneil11.3 miles12
Town Bluff14.3 miles14
Doucette15.6 miles12
Dies Community16.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122566439The 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 1383667. 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.