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Oak Grove, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75783. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cartwright quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

213 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,883 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS & TRAILER FIRE
9 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service65_09
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 347
7 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 346
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPFIRE
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9252013
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER FEEDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Hainesville Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAnhydrite, Halite

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 hail, 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
March 2016HailOak Grove-Dime size hail was reported near the intersection of Highway 154 and County Road 3130.
May 2016HailOak Grove-Quarter size hail near was reported near the intersection of Hwy. 154 and FM 14 east of Quitman, Texas.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-The wind gust was measured on Hwy. 154 east of Quitman, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
East Point2.6 miles12
Cartwright3.8 miles12
Forest Hill4.0 miles13
Stout4.3 miles12
Little Hope5.5 miles12
Quitman5.9 miles13
Pine Mills6.3 miles12
Ogburn6.6 miles14

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 Q119854014The 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 1380894. 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.

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.