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Holland Quarters, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carthage census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75633. The Survey maps it on the Beckville quadrangle.

Holland Quarters within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Holland Quarters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 822 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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 burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7126
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 476
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-117
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 146
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-110
26 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-111
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-109

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Holland Quarters: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Panola 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
Delray2.1 miles14
Riderville2.9 miles14
Carthage4.8 miles13
Beckville5.3 miles14
Clayton5.5 miles13
Fair Play5.8 miles12
Walnut Grove6.4 miles13
Pleasant Ridge6.6 miles13

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 Q122564627The 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 1379945. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.