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Isla, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Milam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75959. The Survey maps it on the East Hamilton quadrangle.

Isla within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Isla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,010 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7099
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 235
15 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasNINE MILE
15 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Geneva4.3 miles10
Milam5.0 miles11
Sexton5.3 miles14
Rosevine9.0 miles10
Sabinetown10.1 miles14
Hemphill11.3 miles11
Strickland Crossing13.3 miles11
Bronson14.2 miles12

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 IslaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6081434The 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 1889819. 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.