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Oak Grove, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the De Kalb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

265 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,612 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 34 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 burning165
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural4
Smoking4
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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3314
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1994Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES LEE
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARLAND
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees were blown down over the road just west-northwest of De Kalb.
May 2020Flash FloodOak Grove-County Road 4321 between Avery and Dekalb was impassable due to flooding.
March 2000HailOak Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Garland1.7 miles9
De Kalb4.2 miles10
Hodgson4.4 miles11
Spring Hill4.8 miles9
Hubbard5.5 miles11
New Hope6.5 miles11
Pine Springs6.6 miles9
Beaverdam7.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18922631The 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 1364265. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.