Peters Prairie, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Clarksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. It stands on Lynch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle.

Peters Prairie within Red River 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.

1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

98 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Peters Prairie between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,224 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 133
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 195
6 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peters Prairie: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Red River 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
Aikin Grove	2.5 miles	8
Sherry	5.2 miles	8
Clarksville	5.3 miles	8
Annona	5.4 miles	9
Mena (historical)	5.4 miles	9
Maple	5.8 miles	9
Cuthand	5.9 miles	8
McCoy	6.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380344. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.