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Rhode Island, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fairfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75840. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stewards Mill quadrangle.

Rhode Island within Freestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

85 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Rhode Island between 2005 and 2020, burning about 999 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011098
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017-060
19 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM/A FCR 1041
13 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFCR 1245 GRASS FIRE
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015057
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service207 FIRE
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011082

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone 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
Stewards Mill1.7 miles7
Bonnerville3.7 miles7
Ward Prairie6.1 miles7
Kirvin6.2 miles7
Streetman6.5 miles9
Fairfield7.2 miles8
Young8.2 miles8
Winkler8.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378956. 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.