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New Mesquite, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Farmersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75442. It stands on Tom Bean Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavon quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

New Mesquite within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

142 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of New Mesquite between 2005 and 2018, burning about 598 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural1
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
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 966 AND COUNTY ROAD 487
20 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH BRANCH - 217
13 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 549 AND COUNTY ROAD 980
9 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14834 CR 546
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6574 CR 593
7 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY_ROAD_965_/_COUNTY_ROAD_488

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Lavon Beach Estates0.9 miles11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres2.5 miles11
Lavon Shores Estates2.5 miles11
Yucote Acres2.7 miles11
Copeville2.7 miles11
Culleoka3.2 miles10
Little Ridge3.9 miles11
Clear Lake4.2 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on New MesquiteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076546The 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 1378748. 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.