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Oak Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ennis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75119. The Survey maps it on the Ennis East quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

50 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 2006 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1111976
28 September 2016Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2014Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC14-12765
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIMER
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC17-28986
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLISKA ROAD GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Ensign1.7 miles11
Alma2.7 miles11
Onion Creek3.1 miles9
Ennis5.3 miles11
Byrd5.5 miles9
Sonoma5.8 miles11
Bardwell6.0 miles11
Creechville6.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378779. 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.