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Prairie Grove, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Diboll census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75941. The Survey maps it on the Bald Hill quadrangle.

Prairie Grove within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 653
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA 14:12
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 252
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA 17:57
10 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA 16:31
6 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7063
5 August 1999Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shady Grove1.9 miles11
Beulah2.9 miles13
Diboll3.5 miles11
Rutland4.2 miles11
Burke5.0 miles11
Renova (historical)6.0 miles11
Bald Hill6.3 miles13
Homer9.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380390. 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.