Hogansville, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75440. The Survey maps it on the Alba quadrangle.

Hogansville within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Arbala quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

164 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Hogansville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 928 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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	128
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ASSIST WILDLAND FIRE
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TREE FIRE
20 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9202015
18 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	09182017B
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
10 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9102014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Bright Star	2.9 miles	15
Ginger	3.2 miles	15
Shotgun Crossing	3.7 miles	16
Shady Grove	4.6 miles	16
Emory	5.1 miles	14
Poole	5.2 miles	16
Willow Springs	5.9 miles	14
Rocky Point Center	6.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378463. 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.