Schwab City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Isham Branch. The Survey maps it on the Schwab City quadrangle.

Schwab City within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Schwab City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

77 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Schwab City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	1
Natural	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN JACINTO 15:00
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 314
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BLUEBIRD
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 68
22 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 321

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Ace	3.9 miles	12
Providence	6.0 miles	12
Goodrich	6.2 miles	12
Segno	7.8 miles	12
Lamont	7.8 miles	12
New Hope	7.9 miles	12
Indian Springs	8.2 miles	12
Crystal Lakes Country Estates	8.3 miles	13

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 Q122558884

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 1380504. 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.