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Jones, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Grand Saline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75140. The Survey maps it on the Van quadrangle.

Jones within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Jones between 1994 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7121
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 110
11 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1316
6 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOT WHEELS FIRE
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1806
26 August 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1520
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201900301

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jones: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Grand Saline MineHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1888, 1931
Grand Saline OperationSaltProducer
Grand Saline Salt MineSaltProducer

Every working 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
Sand Flat1.8 miles15
Corinth2.9 miles14
Pruitt3.3 miles14
Clower4.6 miles14
Grand Saline4.9 miles15
Oakland5.0 miles13
Silver Lake5.9 miles15
Van6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378501. 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.