BlockMonterey, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75980. The Survey maps it on the Zavalla quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Zavalla quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
123 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Monterey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 977 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 46 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | SMITH BRANCH |
| 7 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | PICKARD |
| 7 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | NATURAL LITE |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | DEAD MAN |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | TWICE |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 8089 |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 248 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Monterey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530754 | 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 1380206. 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.