Oak Flat, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Oak Flat within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1949 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Oak Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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	71
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	C-48
29 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 205
25 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SCOTT MOOREHEAD
25 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	90-2011
24 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 253
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 244
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	STANLEY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Huntington	3.3 miles	14
Shawnee	4.3 miles	15
Ora	4.6 miles	13
Boynton	5.2 miles	15
Rocky Springs	5.5 miles	14
Alco	6.1 miles	14
Homer	6.6 miles	14
Shawnee Prairie	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382407. 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.