Hickory Ridge, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Hemphill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75948. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Hickory Ridge within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1944 USGS Wiergate quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Wiergate quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Fairdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Wiergate quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Leesville quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Ridge between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,066 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOCKLAND CIRCLE
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEECHWOOD 11
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
30 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAKELOW
27 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JOHNSON & 3315
10 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PARADISE POINT
3 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine 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
Fairdale	1.6 miles	15
Fairmount	5.0 miles	15
Clarktown	7.0 miles	10
Mason	7.1 miles	10
Yellowpine	10.2 miles	11
Sabinetown	13.6 miles	14
Hemphill	14.0 miles	11
Stringtown	15.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381999. 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.