Ginger, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75410. The Survey maps it on the Alba quadrangle.

Ginger within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Alba quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ginger between 2005 and 2020, burning about 444 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	36
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE FIRE
20 September 2010	Natural	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 173
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6150
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ASSIST WILDLAND FIRE
20 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	72009
18 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ginger in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1999	Hail	Ginger	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rains 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
Bright Star	2.7 miles	15
Willow Springs	2.8 miles	14
Emory	3.0 miles	14
Hogansville	3.2 miles	16
Rocky Point Center	3.4 miles	14
Shady Grove	4.0 miles	16
Bellview	4.8 miles	15
Shotgun Crossing	5.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378357. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.