Mount Evergreen, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Beaumont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77708. The Survey maps it on the Voth quadrangle.

Mount Evergreen within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1932 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Voth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Voth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Mount Evergreen between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	KIETH RD
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH/TRAM
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH/EQUIPMENT/TRAILER
2 September 2013	Debris and open burning	136 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9166
2 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	105/DEBRIS
15 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Gilburg	0.6 miles	14
Rosedale Acres	0.6 miles	14
Bor-ley Heights	1.1 miles	14
Rosedale	1.3 miles	14
Voth	2.2 miles	14
Helbig	2.3 miles	14
Pine Crest	3.6 miles	19
Calder Highlands	4.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1342037. 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.