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Hogeye, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Celeste census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75423. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Hogeye within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

139 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Hogeye between 2005 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1023 WOLFE CITY
9 September 2014Debris and open burning21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEBB HILL
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANDERSON FIRE
3 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSS FIRE CR 1093 AND FM 1562
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1091 GRASS FIRE
28 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE CR 1017
28 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHICKORY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Midway0.8 miles6
Celeste1.7 miles6
White Rock3.0 miles6
Kingston3.1 miles6
Hickory Creek4.7 miles6
Lane5.3 miles7
Kellogg6.1 miles7
Tidwell6.9 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on HogeyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104852011The 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 1379941. 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.