New Willard, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Barnett Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Willard quadrangle.

New Willard within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS New Willard quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS New Willard quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of New Willard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 843 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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 burning	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	125 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 657
29 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 195
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 300
31 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 601

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Leggett	1.9 miles	13
Marston	2.8 miles	13
Israel	3.8 miles	12
Seven Oaks	4.1 miles	13
Walda	5.5 miles	13
Bold Springs	5.6 miles	13
Ollie	6.0 miles	13
Bering	6.2 miles	13

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 Q122571137

The 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 1363817. 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.