McElroy, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Pineland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75968. It stands on Easley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pineland South quadrangle.

McElroy within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Alexandria quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Brookeland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1969 USGS Brookeland quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Pineland South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Leesville quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Pineland South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of McElroy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,480 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	381 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	LOWE
4 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	85 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 672
26 September 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BEAR CREEK
25 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR219 WOODS FIRE
23 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	PINELAND DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sabine 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
Brookeland	3.2 miles	10
Stumptown	3.4 miles	10
Pineland	3.5 miles	10
Stringtown	3.7 miles	10
Blackjack	4.2 miles	10
Magasco	5.7 miles	11
Strickland Crossing	9.3 miles	11
Yellowpine	9.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382257. 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.