Oakdale, 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 75437. The Survey maps it on the Tira quadrangle.

Oakdale 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Tira quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 2003 and 2018, burning about 323 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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	Natural	39 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 629
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6215
20 August 2006	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 597
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOPKINS 15:57
28 December 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 December 2003	Recreation and ceremony	45 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 365
25 November 2008	Debris and open burning	142 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 180
13 October 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN-689

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 Oakdale: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Birth Right Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shirley	1.1 miles	9
Hatchetville	1.7 miles	9
Nelta	2.6 miles	8
Oak Grove	2.6 miles	9
Birthright	2.6 miles	9
Dike	3.5 miles	9
Sandhill	3.6 miles	9
New Birthright	3.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380277. 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.