Harrison Town, 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. The Survey maps it on the Ratcliff quadrangle.

Harrison Town 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.

1950 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Ratcliff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Town between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,231 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	FM 1733
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
28 September 2002	Smoking	5.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	CREATH
19 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SAWMILL #2
15 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
13 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
6 August 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SAWMILL

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
Center Hill	1.9 miles	11
Tadmor	3.2 miles	11
Creath	3.2 miles	11
Kennard	3.6 miles	10
Allen Chapel	4.3 miles	10
Ratcliff	4.5 miles	11
Colthorp	4.7 miles	10
Belott	4.8 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122540587

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 1383340. 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.