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Odom, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75147. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prairieville quadrangle.

Odom within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

89 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Odom between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,635 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0907171 PASTURE FIRE W/ EUSTACE
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2918
11 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2001Debris and open burning125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 125
26 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-163
24 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRESIDENTIAL GRASS FIRE
23 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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
Roddy2.7 miles11
Phalba4.2 miles13
Whitton7.5 miles13
Denman Crossroads7.6 miles13
Four Mile Prairie7.8 miles11
Jackson8.9 miles13
Wise9.3 miles10
Walton9.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378785. 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.