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Red Branch, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Glendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75862. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lovelady South quadrangle.

Red Branch within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Red Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,498 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution32 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 880
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 859
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 836
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 September 1994Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2012Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12510124
7 August 1994Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Red Branch: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Trinity 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
Glendale6.6 miles10
Mill Town7.7 miles12
Saron7.8 miles10
Friday8.1 miles10
Trinity8.6 miles12
Westville11.5 miles11
Pennington12.4 miles10
Sebastopol13.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380419. 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.