Maple Crest Acres, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vidor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77662. The Survey maps it on the Texla quadrangle.

Maple Crest Acres within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1926 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Texla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Maple Crest Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,422 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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 burning	74
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 863
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	487 S 7
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 696
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	487 S 2
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 668
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Maple Crest Acres: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beeco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand
L O Block Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Larry Tinkle Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Lakewood	0.5 miles	13
Vidor	1.8 miles	15
Connell	2.4 miles	16
Doty	2.5 miles	13
Terry	3.6 miles	16
Pine Forest	4.2 miles	15
Rose City	4.4 miles	19
Echo Forest	5.3 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122539516

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 1340910. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.