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San Jacinto, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77873. It stands on Lee Branch. The Survey maps it on the San Jacinto quadrangle.

San Jacinto within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of San Jacinto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,495 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 844
4 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasFARRIS
3 September 2000Recreation and ceremony15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 369
29 September 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Jacinto in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSan Jacinto$7,000Trees and power lines were downed along FM 1791.
January 2024Flash FloodSan Jacinto-FM 1791 was closed at the San Jacinto River.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Goshen0.0 miles14
Bath5.5 miles13
Wesley Grove5.7 miles10
Loma6.2 miles10
Galilee6.7 miles10
Pine Hill9.3 miles14
Crabbs Prairie9.9 miles11
Moore Grove10.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382693. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.