Ogburn, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It stands on Ready Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rhonesboro quadrangle.

Ogburn within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Rhonesboro quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Ogburn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,862 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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	135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Smoking	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	65_09
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	UPSHUR 13:27
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 158
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 647
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 643
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9252013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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
Perryville	3.9 miles	14
East Point	4.0 miles	12
Stout	4.5 miles	12
Little Hope	4.6 miles	12
Pineview	5.7 miles	13
Westbrook	6.0 miles	13
Oak Grove	6.6 miles	12
Pine Mills	7.7 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Ogburn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119854027	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378786. 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.