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Hagerville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Kennard-Ratcliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. It stands on Armstrong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centralia quadrangle.

Hagerville within Houston 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Hagerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,924 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning16
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism45 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCONNER
8 August 2019Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRINITY 15:12
6 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texas562 FIRE
6 August 1998Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasBOGGY SLOUGH
4 August 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 343
25 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCONNER
21 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Stubblefield2.6 miles11
Fog Town2.7 miles10
Colthorp3.8 miles10
Allen Chapel4.1 miles10
Mount Vernon4.4 miles12
Ratcliff4.5 miles11
Kennard5.5 miles10
Plain7.5 miles12

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 HagervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120643820The 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 1381958. 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.