Kensing, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75450. It stands on Red Branch. The Survey maps it on the Minter quadrangle.

Kensing within Delta 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Minter quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Kensing between 2005 and 2018, burning about 119 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8

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
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 1202 & FM 895
27 August 2018	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BURKHART GRASS FIRE
26 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 June 2017	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 895
22 June 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6/22/14 FM 895 @ CR 1230 WHEAT FIELD FIRE
17 March 2009	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9035
13 March 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kensing in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1999	Hail	Kensing	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Vasco	3.4 miles	8
East Delta	4.4 miles	8
Charleston	5.6 miles	8
Pacio	6.0 miles	8
Prattville	8.5 miles	8
Lake Creek	8.8 miles	8
Post Oak	9.1 miles	8
Mount Joy	11.1 miles	8

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 Kensing	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122563262	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 1380025. 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.

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.