Pauline, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. The Survey maps it on the Mabank quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Pauline within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mabank quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

130 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Pauline between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,143 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GAS PLANT FIRE 2
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 2507
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PSFD
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALLEN RANCH RD
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	96 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7105
2 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2918
14 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PEACEFUL WOODS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson 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
Eustace	3.3 miles	14
Payne Springs	4.2 miles	14
Gun Barrel City	5.2 miles	12
Enchanted Oaks	5.8 miles	14
Big Rock	6.2 miles	13
Stockard	6.5 miles	13
Tool	7.8 miles	12
Caney City	7.8 miles	11

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 Pauline	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076548	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 1378839. 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.