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La Cerda, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75937. The Survey maps it on the Etoile North quadrangle.

La Cerda within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of La Cerda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,148 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 1998Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 459
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 557
2 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Clear Springs2.1 miles12
Suttons Mill3.6 miles12
Etoile4.1 miles12
Chireno4.9 miles13
Woden8.2 miles12
Shirley Creek8.5 miles13
Attoyac8.6 miles11
Melrose9.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122538951The 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 1382110. 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.