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Odds, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kosse census division. The Survey maps it on the Odds quadrangle.

Odds within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Odds between 2006 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9162016
4 August 2011Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLCR 623
3 August 2008Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 214
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7082017
30 July 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2018Smoking12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7252018
25 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 339 FIRE
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service71801

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Buffalo Mop1.3 miles6
Little Elm2.1 miles6
Coit3.0 miles6
Pleasant Grove4.4 miles6
Big Hill4.6 miles6
Ben Hur7.0 miles7
Thornton7.6 miles6
Kosse8.3 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380284. 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.