Granville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pollok census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75904. The Survey maps it on the Keltys quadrangle.

Granville within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1949 USGS Keltys quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Keltys quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Granville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,135 acres in total. 6 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 burning	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE PEAVY SWITCH
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	235 acres	Livingston Area	WOMACK ROAD FIRE
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 663
30 September 1993	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 256
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Blix	1.9 miles	11
Peavy	1.9 miles	11
Providence	3.8 miles	11
Hudson	4.4 miles	11
Burke	5.1 miles	11
Renova (historical)	5.2 miles	11
Woodlawn	6.6 miles	11
Rutland	6.9 miles	11

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 Granville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530753	The 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 1381936. 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.