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Longpoint, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gay Hill-Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77835. The Survey maps it on the Burton quadrangle.

Longpoint within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

119 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Longpoint between 1999 and 2020, burning about 533 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9501 290 WEST
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service290/OLD BURTON ROAD
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8500 290 WEST
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERLOOK PARK
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHEPARD MOUNTAIN RANCH FIRE
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHEPARD MOUTAIN
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONGPOINT ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Rehburg2.2 miles10
Gay Hill3.0 miles10
Zionville3.1 miles10
Quarry5.0 miles10
Union Hill5.1 miles7
Burton5.2 miles7
Mill Creek5.9 miles10
Berlin6.3 miles10

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 LongpointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120289906The 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 1378608. 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.