Rutland, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Diboll census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75941. The Survey maps it on the Diboll quadrangle.

Rutland within Angelina County

On record in Rutland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Temple, Henry G., Houselisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Diboll quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Diboll quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rutland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 821 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named
7 September 1993	Smoking	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	7109
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 663
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 247
20 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	69 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7111

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina 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
Diboll	0.7 miles	11
Renova (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Shady Grove	2.3 miles	11
Burke	3.3 miles	11
Prairie Grove	4.2 miles	13
Blix	6.5 miles	11
Beulah	6.7 miles	13
Granville	6.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382667. 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.