BlockSalem, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Call census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75933. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle.
On record in Salem
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 1 record
- West Log Houselisted 1979
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Kirbyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS DeRidder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
124 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,571 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 58 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 58 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 661 |
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 645 |
| 22 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 63 |
| 20 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4102 GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 611 |
| 4 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 283 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1367346. 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.