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Ora, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75949. The Survey maps it on the Etoile South quadrangle.

Ora within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker conducting a test with pitch obtained from pulpwood
Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker conducting a test with pitch obtained from pulpwood
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker testing tensile strength of a strip of newsprint
Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker testing tensile strength of a strip of newsprint
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Ora between 1992 and 2019, burning about 428 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSMITH BRANCH
30 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCHENEY
20 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSTANLEY CREEK
2 September 2000Natural13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 629

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Boynton2.9 miles15
Monterey3.7 miles15
Oak Flat4.6 miles14
Shawnee5.8 miles15
Ewing7.4 miles13
Huntington7.9 miles14
Zavalla8.2 miles15
Thomas Crossing8.4 miles14

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 OraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110530758The 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 1382441. 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.