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Pope City, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Harleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75661. The Survey maps it on the Woodlawn quadrangle.

Pope City within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

281 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Pope City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,093 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 13 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 burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUSLOW TIMBER CO
7 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 378
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 375
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,036 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETERS CHAPEL FIRE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEAN RICHARSON
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACROSS FROM WILLIAM COLLISION 59 S.
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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
Woodlawn2.4 miles13
Baldwin4.1 miles14
Gainesville4.7 miles12
Karnack7.3 miles14
Jasper Heights9.6 miles12
Nesbitt10.0 miles12
Uncertain10.0 miles15
Marshall10.2 miles12

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 Q122597110The 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 1378898. 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.