Pitner Junction, Texas

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.

• 1936 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:48000
• 1936 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1971 USGS Kilgore SE quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 515 fires within 5 miles of Pitner Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,651 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 28 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pirtle
• Jacobs
• Cross Roads
• Laird Hill
• Sexton City
• Friars

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378874. 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.