Jenkins, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77864. The Survey maps it on the Connor quadrangle.

Jenkins within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Connor quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Jenkins between 1993 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
9 September 1998	Smoking	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE #25
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE #23
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE #39
4 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 840
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RONI WELCH
3 September 2000	Natural	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 376

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jenkins: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Day Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	Halite

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Connor	2.6 miles	10
Madisonville	3.3 miles	11
Elwood	6.0 miles	10
Midway	6.7 miles	10
Laceola	6.8 miles	11
Dingerville	6.8 miles	10
Old Elwood	7.3 miles	10
Cross Roads	8.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380000. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.