Liberty Grove, 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 75432. It stands on Cannon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooper South quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Liberty Grove 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
1964 USGS Cooper South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Grove between 2005 and 2018, burning about 632 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2890
28 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 24 N FIRE
8 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DELTA COMMISH FIRE
7 August 2013	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	UNIT 18 FIRE
6 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CRP
5 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1528 GRASS FIRE
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2890 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Friendship	2.9 miles	8
Cooper	3.0 miles	8
Klondike	3.2 miles	9
West Delta	4.6 miles	9
Price	4.9 miles	8
Gough	5.5 miles	9
Antioch	6.4 miles	9
Post Oak	6.8 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 Liberty Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710954	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 1380083. 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.