Oak Ridge, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woden quadrangle.

Oak Ridge within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1952 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Woden quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

104 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Oak Ridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,433 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 burning	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 467
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7097
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Ridge in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
October 2025	Hail	Oak Ridge	-	A picture was posted to social media of nickel size hail that fell just east of Nacogdoches.
May 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Oak Ridge	-	This EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph, was part of a line of convection that moved through Nacogdoches County and was embedded in a much wider swath of wind damage. The tornado first touched down southwest of the corner at County Road 302 and County Road 313. The damage in this area consisted of many trees snapped or uprooted that were convergent and more chaotic than the surrounding damage. However, there was some damage to the roofing of a small barn on the property along with a snapped power pole nearby. The tornado then crossed County Road 313 just south of County Road 302 where significant tree damage was observed. From there, the road network was sparse and no other points were accessible until the tornado crossed County Road 302 north of San Augustine Highway to the west of Melrose. EF-0 damage continued along County Road 302 south to San Augustine Highway with damage observed along the highway into Melrose. The tornado then crossed County Road 331 where damage seemed to increase and was consistent with that of EF-1 wind speeds. From there, the tornado continued north of San Augustine Highway until it reached FM 3276 before it lifted just to the east of 3276.
January 2022	Hail	Oak Ridge	-	Ping pong ball size hail fell off of East Main Street near Nottingham and Robin Hood Drives.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Oak Ridge	-	Water covered Highway 21 at County Road 508.
December 2018	Flash Flood	Oak Ridge	-	County Road 302 was flooded and closed.
May 2008	Hail	Oak Ridge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Plainview	3.2 miles	12
Melrose	3.5 miles	11
Swift	4.6 miles	11
Woden	4.8 miles	12
Shady Grove	4.9 miles	12
Orton Hill	5.4 miles	13
Lacyville	5.8 miles	12
Hayward Junction	5.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034836. 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.