Plainview, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75856. It stands on Tanyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fodice quadrangle.

Plainview within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Fodice quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,246 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 530
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
23 September 1992	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	38 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
22 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
22 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shady Grove	3.4 miles	11
Fodice	4.1 miles	11
Arbor	5.2 miles	10
Hopewell	5.8 miles	10
Center Grove	7.6 miles	9
Holly	7.6 miles	11
Berea	8.1 miles	10
Smith Grove	8.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382523. 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.