Jamestown, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75773. It stands on Brushy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Van Lake quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Jamestown within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Grand Saline quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Van Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 769 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 burning	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
18 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
10 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
8 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
7 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NONE
4 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 120

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Garden Valley	4.7 miles	16
Friendship	5.6 miles	13
Carroll	8.2 miles	13
Hideaway	9.4 miles	15
Hide-A-Way Lake	9.5 miles	15
Lindale	10.5 miles	13
Mount Sylvan	10.8 miles	15
Thedford	12.2 miles	15

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 Jamestown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076504	The 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 1380864. 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.