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Oak Village, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. It lies near Wade Reeves Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fannin quadrangle.

Oak Village within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

63 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Oak Village between 2006 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE RD #2
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446 FIRE
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEMPER CITY
10 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHUBERT
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 59 S FIRE
9 August 2016Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIVENS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria 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
Raisin2.3 miles8
Coletoville2.8 miles8
Aloe5.1 miles9
Quail Creek5.3 miles9
Chipley7.6 miles9
Hughes9.7 miles8
Victoria9.8 miles9
Dernal11.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380275. 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.