BlockMount Olive, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Edna-Cordele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77957. The Survey maps it on the Mount Olive quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Mount Olive quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 2000 and 2014, burning about 376 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 9 |
| 20 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SR111 FIRE |
| 9 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 126 FIRE |
| 18 July 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 284 FIRE |
| 23 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 126 |
| 20 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 111 |
| 4 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 111 |
| 11 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 111 NORTH FIRE |
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 1380220. 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.