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Pin Oak, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78957. It stands on Spaulding. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Pin Oak within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Pin Oak between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,103 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK RD FIRE
7 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERMS 290
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOTIER TRACE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIN OAK RD
2 September 2014Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKRCHNAK ROAD FIRE
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKRCHNAK
10 September 1997Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3200 BLOCK HWY. 290

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Grassyville3.9 miles16
Smithville6.6 miles17
Alum Creek7.1 miles17
Colorado7.4 miles11
Flower Hill8.7 miles11
Paige8.7 miles16
Circle D Estates9.3 miles17
KC Estates9.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378862. 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.