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Jackson, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Canton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75103. The Survey maps it on the Phalba quadrangle.

Jackson within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

115 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Jackson between 1996 and 2020, burning about 689 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3

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 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2909
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1255
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2909
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK ST
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2310
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2142
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2318
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW.B. I-20 @ 523 MM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jackson in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024HailJackson-HAM reported that nickel hail was measured 4 miles southwest of Canton.
May 1999Flash FloodJackson-County Road 1651 was flooded by thunderstorm rains.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindJackson-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Tundra2.9 miles13
Whitton3.5 miles13
Wallace4.5 miles13
Phalba4.7 miles13
High5.9 miles13
Wise6.0 miles10
Denman Crossroads6.1 miles13
Canton6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378487. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.