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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Broaddus quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Etoile South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Etoile South quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 1943Taken 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.
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
97 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | SMITH BRANCH |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | CHENEY |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | STANLEY CREEK |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 13 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 629 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boynton | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Monterey | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Oak Flat | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Shawnee | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Ewing | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Huntington | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Zavalla | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Thomas Crossing | 8.4 miles | 14 |
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 Ora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110530758 | 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 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.







