Red Bank, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75561. The Survey maps it on the Barkman quadrangle.

Red Bank within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1950 USGS Barkman quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Barkman quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

99 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Red Bank between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,042 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 333
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 181
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 206
25 September 2011	Natural	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 636

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barkman	0.1 miles	13
Redbank	0.9 miles	11
Burns	2.5 miles	11
Smith Hill	2.9 miles	11
Victory City	4.2 miles	18
Hooks	4.8 miles	13
Leary	4.9 miles	18
Red Lick	5.6 miles	18

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.

Wikipedia article on Red Bank	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28095129	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 2034796. 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.