Oak Grove, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76028. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burleson quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Burleson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

135 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 827 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	92
Debris and open burning	16
Smoking	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
24 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MITCHELL
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FEATHERSTONE
22 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAWN HILL
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILLOW GLEN
19 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHATEAU
11 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIVER OAKS
1 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FOREST HILL
6 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	W 13TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Garden Acres	1.2 miles	14
Rendon	2.7 miles	16
Valley Ridge	2.7 miles	16
Everman	3.6 miles	16
Retta	3.6 miles	16
Crowley	3.7 miles	14
Moselle	4.7 miles	16
Lytle	4.8 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q107723030

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 1378780. 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.