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Shiloh, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Longview Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75604. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle.

Shiloh within Gregg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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

635 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 635 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,265 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 33 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 burning298
Missing data/not specified/undetermined143
Power generation/transmission/distribution69
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking19
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Fireworks3

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 42
9 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1802 N. WHITE OAK RD
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6177
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART ST
8 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service115
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 563

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg 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
Warren City2.1 miles12
Seven Pines2.7 miles13
White Oak3.0 miles13
Spring Hill3.2 miles13
Clarksville City3.6 miles12
Teneryville3.7 miles13
Gladewater4.9 miles12
Judson5.8 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on ShilohAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711317The 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 1379070. 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.