Overcup Landing, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75560. It stands on Douglasville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle.

Overcup Landing within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1910 USGS Linden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Douglassville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

144 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Overcup Landing between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,046 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6236
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6295
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 633
29 September 2017	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRAD WRIGHT
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROD ROWE
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MICHAEL WALLIAMS
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Panhandle	1.6 miles	10
Douglassville	3.2 miles	10
Poorboy Landing	3.5 miles	10
Armstrong Landing	4.7 miles	10
Knights Bluff Landing	5.9 miles	10
Gum Springs	6.1 miles	10
Midway	6.3 miles	10
Antioch	6.9 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122551351

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 1378812. 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.