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Poole, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Emory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75497. The Survey maps it on the Arbala quadrangle.

Poole within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

120 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Poole between 1995 and 2018, burning about 644 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2004Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 136
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7125 FM 1567W
8 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 119
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEYNERS
22 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9202015
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09182017B

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Shotgun Crossing2.9 miles16
Hogansville5.2 miles16
Shady Grove5.4 miles16
Dougherty5.4 miles14
County Line6.6 miles14
Emory7.4 miles14
Ginger7.4 miles15
Bright Star8.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378896. 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.