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Kinsloe, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75662. It stands on Bighead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore NE quadrangle. It stands 272 feet above sea level.

Kinsloe within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

363 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Kinsloe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,525 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 55 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 burning165
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Arson/incendiarism55
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service251 FM 2011
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 206
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6182
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-0011382
6 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 205
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0000285

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kinsloe: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Kilgore Ceramics Corp PlantClayProducer
A & T Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ingram PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Norton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Bitulithic PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregg County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinsloe in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 4 flash flood. 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
April 2016Flash FloodKinsloe-The Highway 259 Bypass Ramp in northeast Kilgore was closed due to flooding. Traffic was detoured to Farm to Market Road 349.
April 2016Flash FloodKinsloe-Highway 42 north of Highway 31 at Rabbit Creek in Kilgore was closed due to flooding.
April 2016Flash FloodKinsloe-Highway 31 north of Interstate 20 was closed due to flooding. The water was several inches deep over the roadway.
May 2015Flash FloodKinsloe-Meadows Lane was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Gregg 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
Rolling Meadows1.5 miles16
Danville2.3 miles16
Fredonia2.6 miles16
Kilgore4.3 miles15
Greggton4.7 miles16
Longview6.4 miles13
Lakeport6.5 miles16
Elderville6.6 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q22076511The 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 1378527. 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.