Moore Grove, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77358. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moore Grove quadrangle.

Moore Grove within Walker 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Moore Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Moore Grove quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Moore Grove between 1992 and 2018, burning about 726 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1993	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 832
29 September 2011	Natural	7.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 954
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 204
22 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	NAKED DUDE
19 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Elmina	3.6 miles	13
New Waverly	4.0 miles	13
Bath	4.6 miles	13
Barado	4.8 miles	13
Pine Hill	7.4 miles	14
Pine Valley	7.6 miles	13
Hawthorne	8.2 miles	13
Phelps	9.9 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 Q122543524

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 1382321. 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.