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Overland, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cumby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75433. The Survey maps it on the Gafford Chapel quadrangle.

Overland within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

59 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Overland between 2001 and 2018, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAY
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 663
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1554 FM 2653 SOUTH
22 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAYO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Ridgeway2.1 miles9
Brashear2.6 miles8
Gafford2.9 miles8
Branom4.7 miles9
Cumby5.0 miles9
Good Neighbor5.8 miles8
Palestine5.8 miles9
Pleasant Grove6.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378813. 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.