Maple, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bogata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75417. The Survey maps it on the Boxelder quadrangle.

Maple within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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
1965 USGS Boxelder quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Maple between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,936 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	35
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	89 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 528
3 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 632
28 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 631
1 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLIAMS
6 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 107
6 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 214
30 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River 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
Cuthand	3.2 miles	8
Harts Bluff	4.8 miles	9
Peters Prairie	5.8 miles	8
Boxelder	6.2 miles	9
Pine Branch	6.4 miles	8
Aikin Grove	7.2 miles	8
Sherry	8.1 miles	8
Annona	9.4 miles	9

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 Maple	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711009	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 2034858. 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.