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Pruitt, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Van census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75140. The Survey maps it on the Van quadrangle.

Pruitt within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Pruitt between 1993 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 492
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7121
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
11 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1316
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1505
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNONE
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1806

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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
Van3.0 miles14
Clower3.3 miles14
Jones3.3 miles14
Sand Flat4.1 miles15
Corinth4.5 miles14
Owlett Green4.7 miles14
Oakland6.1 miles13
Colfax6.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378912. 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.