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Jenkins, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Daingerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75638. It stands on South Union Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Star quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Jenkins within Morris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Jenkins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,654 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism32
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3

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 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 566
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMORRIS 12:45
6 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6225
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service90514
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLCREST FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Jenkins: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lone Star DepositsIron, Water, FreePast Producer1830, 1855
UnknownClayPast Producer
Daingerfield DepositIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Oak Grove-Rock Springs DepositIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite
Lone Star Steel Black Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Daingerfield MineIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Limonite PitsIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel Main PitsIronPast Producer
Lone Star Steel PlantIronProducer
Morris County Line DepositsIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenkins in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 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
June 2020HailJenkins-Quarter size hail fell near the Jenkins community north of Lone Star.
January 2008HailJenkins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Lone Star2.3 miles12
Laman3.4 miles12
Daingerfield3.8 miles11
Gillis4.2 miles9
Cason6.7 miles9
Rocky Branch9.4 miles11
Mount Mitchell11.0 miles9
Omaha14.2 miles11

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 JenkinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28030616The 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 1378496. 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.

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.