McKnight, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75667. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gum Springs quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

McKnight within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1935 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1973 USGS Gum Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of McKnight between 1992 and 2019, burning about 950 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	77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
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 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 527
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6231
30 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHARLES WASSON
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS FIRE
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6228
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Pone	2.6 miles	13
Pleasant Grove	2.9 miles	13
Good Springs	3.6 miles	13
Freeneytown	4.1 miles	11
New Salem	5.2 miles	11
Laneville	5.3 miles	11
Big Springs	5.4 miles	13
Gum Springs	5.5 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.

Wikipedia article on McKnight	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130241499	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 1378657. 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.