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Ohio, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76566. The Survey maps it on the Ohio quadrangle.

Ohio within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

92 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Ohio between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,065 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
Debris and open burning61
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHC
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 160 FIRE
28 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
27 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARAWAY
27 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC
26 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Ballard Crossing0.1 miles14
Slab Crossing1.0 miles14
Parsley Crossing2.4 miles14
Vista6.8 miles13
Aleman6.8 miles13
Schoolerville7.4 miles13
Fairview8.0 miles13
Shive9.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380289. 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.