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Frontier Village, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75020. It stands on Loy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherman quadrangle.

Frontier Village within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

242 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Frontier Village between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined118
Debris and open burning61
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75FIRE
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75 COMMAND
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service91
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND PARK
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 91
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 691
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURTHUR
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service691

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frontier Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grayson County Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grayson Pits & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grayson 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
Ellsworth1.7 miles12
Twin City2.0 miles12
Mills2.2 miles12
Woodlake Park2.6 miles12
Knollwood3.2 miles12
Denison3.3 miles13
North Sherman Junction4.6 miles12
Pottsboro4.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377145. 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.