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Oak Grove, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Tira quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 2003 and 2019, burning about 342 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2011Natural39 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 629
20 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 597
9 April 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 15:57
18 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 15:25
28 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 November 2008Debris and open burning142 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 180
19 November 2019Debris and open burning22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS 13:18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Birth Right Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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
Weir1.6 miles9
Tira1.8 miles9
Sandhill1.8 miles9
Birthright2.4 miles9
Shirley2.4 miles9
Oakdale2.6 miles9
Addran2.7 miles9
New Birthright2.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380272. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.