Old Center, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gary City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75974. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Old Center quadrangle.

Old Center within Panola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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.

1945 USGS Socagee Bayou quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1983 USGS Old Center quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Old Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. 1 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 burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS 9-4-11
30 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6164
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 564
28 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODS 8-26-11
26 August 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Panola 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
Woods	3.2 miles	17
Shady Grove	6.2 miles	13
Galloway	6.4 miles	18
Antioch	8.0 miles	13
Logan	8.7 miles	18
Deadwood	9.6 miles	17
Gary	9.8 miles	13
Pleasant Ridge	10.3 miles	13

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 Old Center	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127700189	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 2034784. 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.