BlockMonterey, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75657. It stands on Hunts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trees quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1944 USGS Kildare quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Kildare quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Trees quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
177 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Monterey between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,097 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 39 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.6 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 31 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 55 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378697. 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.