Friendship, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Groveton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle.

Friendship within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Pennington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2019, burning about 893 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 164
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
28 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
23 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	38 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
22 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
22 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
18 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity 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
Pennington	3.5 miles	10
Nogalus	5.7 miles	11
Center Point	5.7 miles	11
Crecy	7.3 miles	10
Centralia	8.2 miles	11
Centerville	8.4 miles	10
Friday	9.1 miles	10
Lacy	10.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381897. 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.