BlockBefore

Red Level, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kilgore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75662. It stands on Little Rabbit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore SW quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Red Level within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

524 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 524 fires within 5 miles of Red Level between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,751 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 44 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 burning242
Missing data/not specified/undetermined121
Power generation/transmission/distribution46
Arson/incendiarism44
Equipment and vehicle use22
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service348
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service153-D COMMAND
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIDE OF 1111
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 517
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSON HEIGHTS OTHER STRUCTURE FIRE
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 512
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTYRA RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Leverett's Chapel3.1 miles15
Laird Hill3.4 miles15
Sexton City4.0 miles15
Overton4.6 miles15
Pitner Junction6.3 miles15
Pirtle6.4 miles15
New London7.1 miles13
Jacobs7.4 miles15

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 LevelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29470798The 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 1378942. 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.