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Mountain Heaven, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville West quadrangle.

Mountain Heaven within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

440 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 440 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Heaven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,038 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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 burning246
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Smoking16
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Fireworks3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7127
9 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 229
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 475

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mountain Heaven: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount HavenIronProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Hume1.0 miles10
Lake View1.9 miles10
Church Hill2.1 miles10
New Hope2.8 miles10
Jacksonville3.3 miles10
Ironton3.5 miles10
Cove Springs3.6 miles14
Corine3.8 miles10

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 Q122544390The 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 1889921. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.