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Pine Forest, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pickton-Pine Forest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75471. The Survey maps it on the Como quadrangle.

Pine Forest 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Pine Forest between 2000 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 September 2005Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 391
4 March 2007Debris and open burning43 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 77
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 February 2014Arson/incendiarism13 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Forest in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPine Forest$200Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
October 2009Flash FloodPine Forest-Vehicles were unable to pass on FM 269 at CR 3310 due to high water.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindPine Forest-no account filed

Every storm 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
Bethel2.7 miles8
Winterfield2.8 miles9
Greenwood3.3 miles9
Weaver4.0 miles9
East Caney4.1 miles9
White Oak Junction4.5 miles9
Pine Hill4.9 miles9
Brinker5.8 miles9

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 Q49360790The 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 1378864. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.