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Liberty, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seymore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Brashear quadrangle.

Liberty within Hopkins 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.

Fires near this place

72 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,098 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2004Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 136
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7125 FM 1567W
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEYNERS
22 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1567 WEST
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 599
30 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6280
29 August 2005Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 321

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Arbala2.3 miles16
Greenview2.9 miles8
Divide3.3 miles8
Tazewell3.4 miles9
Union3.6 miles9
Bonanza4.1 miles16
Crossroads4.1 miles15
Seymore4.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378584. 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.