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Jackson, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Tenaha-Joaquin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75954. The Survey maps it on the Logansport West quadrangle.

Jackson within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Jackson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 207
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 585
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 332
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 476
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 318
27 August 1995Recreation and ceremony10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Fellowship1.5 miles13
Joaquin2.2 miles13
Haslam2.9 miles13
Antioch5.6 miles13
Paxton5.8 miles12
James5.9 miles13
North Jericho7.3 miles12
Campti7.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379994. 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.