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Nena, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75165. The Survey maps it on the Forreston quadrangle.

Nena within Ellis 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

54 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Nena between 2006 and 2014, burning about 817 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-193
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-177
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service012-203
4 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service010-180
13 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1760 FM876
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service77S @ PRONG CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Nelson0.9 miles9
Boz4.1 miles11
Waxahachie4.1 miles10
Five Points4.1 miles11
Nash4.8 miles9
Forreston4.9 miles9
Reagor Springs5.0 miles9
Howard5.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378735. 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.