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Mount Olive, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shiner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77984. The Survey maps it on the Wied quadrangle.

Mount Olive within Lavaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

31 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive between 2005 and 2011, burning about 91 acres in total. None 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROWN FIRE
27 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE P
22 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 95 S
15 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACK KREMLING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca 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
Sweet Home3.6 miles9
Wied3.9 miles9
Midway4.3 miles9
Shiner4.5 miles9
Worthing4.7 miles9
Adel4.9 miles9
Mont5.1 miles9
Williamsburg7.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378708. 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.