Marvin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Paris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75462. It stands on Echols Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pattonville quadrangle.

Marvin within Lamar 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pattonville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

78 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Marvin between 2006 and 2017, burning about 1,035 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
Debris and open burning	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1700 FM 2120
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 42600
4 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1053
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	4200 CLARKSVILLE
19 September 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1055
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	300 EVERGREEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marvin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lamar 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
Jennings	2.1 miles	8
Sylvan	3.6 miles	8
Rockwell	3.7 miles	11
Reno	4.0 miles	8
Sun Valley	4.9 miles	8
Biardstown	4.9 miles	11
Pattonville	5.2 miles	8
Paris	5.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380149. 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.