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Pisgah, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. The Survey maps it on the Appleby quadrangle.

Pisgah within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Pisgah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 524
27 September 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 220
18 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 133
18 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7107
10 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 236
1 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3790FM 2609
7 August 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Cedar Point1.9 miles11
Shady Grove4.4 miles12
Appleby4.4 miles12
Holly Springs4.5 miles11
Whispering Pines4.9 miles11
Fitze5.6 miles11
Swift6.3 miles11
Martinsville7.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380365. 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.