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Leverett's Chapel, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Overton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75684. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore SW quadrangle.

Leverett's Chapel within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

536 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 536 fires within 5 miles of Leverett's Chapel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,624 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 40 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 burning193
Missing data/not specified/undetermined156
Power generation/transmission/distribution65
Arson/incendiarism40
Equipment and vehicle use29
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Smoking13
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 511
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 128
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution295 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 533
9 September 1997Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service153-D COMMAND
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIDE OF 1111
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 517
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Sexton City1.3 miles15
Laird Hill3.0 miles15
Red Level3.1 miles15
Pitner Junction3.3 miles15
Pirtle3.6 miles15
Overton3.9 miles15
Jacobs4.4 miles15
New London5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034770. 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.