Plum Ridge, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Zavalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75980. It stands on Dudley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ebenezer quadrangle. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Plum Ridge within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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
1958 USGS Mc Gee Bend quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Ebenezer quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Ebenezer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Plum Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,685 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 48 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
Arson/incendiarism	48
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	SANDY POINT
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	HWY 63
21 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
2 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Parker Point	1.9 miles	13
Concord	4.3 miles	15
River Ridge	5.3 miles	13
Martin	12.1 miles	16
Nancy	13.3 miles	16
Dolan	13.3 miles	16
Zavalla	13.7 miles	15
Monterey	14.7 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q31429783

The 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 1383652. 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.