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Gainesville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Harleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75672. The Survey maps it on the Marshall East quadrangle.

Gainesville within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Gainesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,399 acres in total. 8 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
Debris and open burning159
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2013Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6297
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUSLOW TIMBER CO
7 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 378
7 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service59 NO.
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 645
28 September 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6159

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gainesville: 10 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Cobb PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Cobb White and Schriver PitsFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Henderson Clay Products Inc PitFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Henderson Clay Products Inc PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Marshall Plant & PitsFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Marshall Pottery Old PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Marshall Pottery PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Marshall Pottery PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Reynolds PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Reynolds PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Woodlawn3.8 miles13
Pope City4.7 miles13
Jasper Heights4.9 miles12
Marshall5.6 miles12
Scottsville6.8 miles14
Nesbitt7.3 miles12
Bel Air7.4 miles12
Baldwin7.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378338. 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.