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Jardin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Commerce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75428. It stands on East Fork Pecan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Commerce North quadrangle.

Jardin within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

145 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Jardin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,583 acres in total. 4 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCREWS HELP FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROOSTER FIRE/CR 4510
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 50
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORSE PEN
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7814 FM 904 FIRE
25 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY ROAD FIRE
25 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4907 FIRE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3132

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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
Fairlie2.4 miles8
Durham3.5 miles8
Commerce5.8 miles8
Aberfoyle5.9 miles6
South Sulphur6.6 miles6
Scatter Branch6.7 miles8
Wolfe City8.5 miles6
Neylandville10.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379997. 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.