BlockPoorboy Landing, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75560. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Linden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Douglassville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
173 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Poorboy Landing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 620 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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 | 99 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 633 |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROD ROWE |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MICHAEL WALLIAMS |
| 23 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 176 |
| 22 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6336 |
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 617 |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Poorboy Landing: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waters | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Waters Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | Goethite, Hematite, Siderite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Landing | 1.2 miles | 10 | |
| Panhandle | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Knights Bluff Landing | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Overcup Landing | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Douglassville | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Antioch | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Midway | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| New Liberty | 4.4 miles | 10 |
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 Q122573424 | 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 1378897. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.