Maxey Town, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75930. It stands on Venado Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chinquapin quadrangle.

Maxey Town within San Augustine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bronson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Chinquapin quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Maxey Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,368 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7098
3 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7049
2 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 824
2 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	8.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 828
16 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7125
16 September 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 902

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Augustine 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
Union Grave	1.5 miles	13
Venable	2.3 miles	12
Macune	2.7 miles	13
Chinquapin	3.1 miles	12
Conville	3.2 miles	12
Rebecca	4.8 miles	12
Sunrise	5.3 miles	12
Norwood	5.4 miles	13

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 Q122547586

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 1382242. 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.