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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
265 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 165 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3314 |
| 9 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 1994 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JAMES LEE |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARLAND |
| 6 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINDELL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Trees were blown down over the road just west-northwest of De Kalb. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Oak Grove | - | County Road 4321 between Avery and Dekalb was impassable due to flooding. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garland | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| De Kalb | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hodgson | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Hill | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hubbard | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| New Hope | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Pine Springs | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Beaverdam | 7.0 miles | 10 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18922631 | 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 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.





