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Fredonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lakeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75662. It stands on Wynns Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore NE quadrangle. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Fredonia within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

417 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 417 fires within 5 miles of Fredonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,940 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 61 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 burning205
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Arson/incendiarism61
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service251 FM 2011
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 206
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 487
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6182
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-0011382
6 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 205

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fredonia: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Kilgore Ceramics Corp PlantClayProducer
A & T Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ingram PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Bitulithic PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregg 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
Rolling Meadows1.1 miles16
Danville1.6 miles16
Kinsloe2.6 miles16
Elderville4.2 miles16
Kilgore4.4 miles15
Lakeport4.8 miles16
Greggton6.5 miles16
Longview7.3 miles13

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 FredoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076484The 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 1378325. 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.