Plain, 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.

• 1950 USGS Kennard NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Kennard NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 2004 USGS Kennard NE quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Plain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 962 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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:

• McKinleyville (historical)
• Tadmor
• Bluff City (historical)
• Burrantown
• Creath
• Allen Chapel

Every fire recorded in Houston County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034803. 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.