Knights Bluff Landing, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75551. It sits by Knights Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle.

Knights Bluff Landing within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1910 USGS Linden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Douglassville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

171 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Knights Bluff Landing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 674 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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 burning	88
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 633
30 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 176
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 334
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 156

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Knights Bluff Landing: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bowie Hill Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1864
Hickory Hill Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	Goethite, Hematite
Waters	Iron	Occurrence
Waters Deposit	Iron	Occurrence	Goethite, Hematite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Armstrong Landing	1.5 miles	10
Poorboy Landing	2.7 miles	10
Antioch	3.7 miles	10
New Liberty	4.6 miles	10
Panhandle	5.0 miles	10
Midway	5.6 miles	10
Overcup Landing	5.9 miles	10
Douglassville	6.1 miles	10

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 Q122542943

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 1378531. 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.