Hishway, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76273. It stands on Briar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle.

Hishway within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1901 USGS Denison quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gordonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Gordonville SW quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

74 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hishway between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,431 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	19
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCK CREEK
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PAWPAW CREEK
20 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DELAWARE BEND
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DOUBLE DIAMOND RESORT
16 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PAW PAW CREEK
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCK CREEK
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DOUBLE DIAMOND RESORT
5 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Red Branch	4.0 miles	13
Sherwood Shores	5.5 miles	12
Cedar Mills	6.1 miles	12
Gordonville	6.2 miles	12
Sandusky	7.1 miles	13
Locust	9.3 miles	12
Dixie	10.4 miles	12
Theodore	10.6 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 Q122540666

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 1377151. 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.