Pine Mills, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75773. It stands on Jayco Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hainesville quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Hainesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
179 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,486 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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 | 90 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 177 |
| 24 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEER FEEDER |
| 23 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 3264 FIRE |
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 431 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mills in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Mills | - | A tree was blown down on County Road 3859 north of Hawkins. |
| March 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Pine Mills | - | The Hainesville Fire Department reported a funnel cloud in the Pine Mills community near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 14 and Farm to Market Road 49. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Pine Mills | - | Farm to Market Road 49 between Farm to Market Road 312 and Farm to Market Road 2869 southeast of Quitman was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Pine Mills | - | Farm to Market Road 312 from Farm to Market Road 49 and Highway 154 east of Quitman was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Mills | - | A tree was downed on FM. 2869 eleven miles east of Mineola, Texas. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Mills | - | Several trees were downed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Hope | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hainesville | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| East Point | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Grove | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Ogburn | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Fouke | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hoard | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Crow | 8.7 miles | 12 |
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 Pine Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988051 | 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 1378867. 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.




