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Mount Bethel, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75402. It stands on Mustang Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenville SE quadrangle.

Mount Bethel within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

277 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Mount Bethel between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,392 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning193
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1564
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2206 FIRE
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEBB FIRE
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3440 C.R. 2173
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service686 F.M. 1903
30 September 2011Smoking1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2001 CR 2246
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013384
24 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5745 RANCHO DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Meadowview1.1 miles6
Weiland3.4 miles6
Wieland3.5 miles6
Cash3.7 miles13
Center Point4.0 miles6
Mineral Heights4.3 miles6
Dixon4.6 miles6
Concord5.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378705. 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.