Locust Grove, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Higgins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79014. The Survey maps it on the Glazier quadrangle.

Locust Grove within Lipscomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Glazier quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Locust Grove between 2006 and 2018, burning about 18,004 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
14 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BAR DITCH
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 April 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	18,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CANADIAN NORTH
19 January 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIG FIRE LIPSCOMB CO. RD. DD

Every fire recorded in Lipscomb 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
Barton Corners	7.8 miles	6
Lipscomb	9.7 miles	6
Coburn	11.8 miles	6
Twin Grove	15.3 miles	6
Higgins	18.2 miles	6
Gaylord	22.9 miles	6
Darrouzett	23.0 miles	6
Sherlock	24.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380098. 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.