Hawthorne, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75972. The Survey maps it on the San Augustine East quadrangle.

Hawthorne within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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
1958 USGS San Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS San Augustine East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS San Augustine East quadrangle1:24000

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 Hawthorne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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	30
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
29 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.7 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SHEEP DOG FIRE
24 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE - TRANSFORMER
19 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7129
8 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7076
31 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 197
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 586
26 August 1996	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
East Liberty	2.5 miles	12
Patroon	2.9 miles	14
McClelland	4.8 miles	12
Alexanders Store	5.5 miles	14
Duff	5.8 miles	11
West Hamilton (historical)	6.1 miles	14
Goober Hill	6.2 miles	14
Dreka	6.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381980. 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.