Herring, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palestine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75801. It stands on Stills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neches quadrangle.

Herring within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1951 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Neches quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Herring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,604 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 11 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2009	Natural	211 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 208
6 September 2018	Natural	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDFIRE
5 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	250 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 468
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 559
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 286
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 282
17 September 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 263

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Jarvis	2.3 miles	11
Kossuth	5.3 miles	11
Crystal Lake	5.7 miles	10
Alderbranch	5.7 miles	11
Rocky Point	6.1 miles	11
Flint Hill	6.9 miles	11
Deanwright	7.7 miles	10
Wells Creek	8.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379922. 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.