Francis, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77630. The Survey maps it on the Orangefield quadrangle.

Francis within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1957 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Francis between 1998 and 2018, burning about 71 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
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
21 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 543
13 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 503
17 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ORANGE 14:37
24 March 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 84
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 86
15 March 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	539 P 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Francis: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Orange Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
R A Mann Bayon Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Alpha Portland Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Orange Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Doc Brown	0.6 miles	16
Bland	1.0 miles	16
West Orange	1.1 miles	16
Bruner	1.2 miles	16
Pinehurst	1.2 miles	16
Pine Grove	1.7 miles	16
Bancroft	1.9 miles	16
Orange	2.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378321. 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.