Sabinetown, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Hemphill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75948. It sits by Goodloe Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Salter Creek quadrangle.

Sabinetown within Sabine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1944 USGS Negreet quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Negreet quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Salter Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Salter Creek quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Leesville quadrangle1:100000
2003 USGS Salter Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

92 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Sabinetown between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,109 acres in total. 7 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	32
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
23 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	ALPINE
20 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
14 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BEALL
13 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	12.09.13F1
10 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	12.09.10F1

Every fire recorded in Sabine 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
Milam	7.6 miles	11
Hemphill	8.5 miles	11
Isla	10.1 miles	14
Mason	11.3 miles	10
Yellowpine	11.7 miles	11
Fairdale	12.2 miles	15
Geneva	12.2 miles	10
Strickland Crossing	13.3 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122547898

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 1382672. 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.