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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.

Pine Mills within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

179 since 1992

Regional 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 177
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER FEEDER
23 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3264 FIRE
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 431

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPine Mills-A tree was blown down on County Road 3859 north of Hawkins.
March 2016Funnel CloudPine 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 2016Flash FloodPine 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 2016Flash FloodPine Mills-Farm to Market Road 312 from Farm to Market Road 49 and Highway 154 east of Quitman was closed due to flooding.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPine Mills-A tree was downed on FM. 2869 eleven miles east of Mineola, Texas.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindPine Mills-Several trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Little Hope3.1 miles12
Hainesville4.3 miles12
East Point6.2 miles12
Oak Grove6.3 miles12
Ogburn7.7 miles14
Fouke7.9 miles12
Hoard8.6 miles12
Crow8.7 miles12

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 MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988051The 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.