Halls Bluff, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Porter Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75835. It stands on Prairie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Halls Bluff quadrangle.

Halls Bluff within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Halls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Halls Bluff between 1996 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KAREN OESTMANN
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009304
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LEON13:43
6 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7078
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 680
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010210
28 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	53 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7090

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Halls Bluff Town (historical)	0.3 miles	10
Wheeler Springs	1.6 miles	10
Reynard	3.9 miles	10
Porter Springs	6.3 miles	10
Mustang Prairie (historical)	8.6 miles	10
Cooper	8.7 miles	9
Oldham	9.7 miles	11
Latexo	10.1 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 Halls Bluff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892038	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 1379880. 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.