BlockSlate Shoals, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Powderly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75473. The Survey maps it on the Slate Shoals quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1951 USGS Slate Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
129 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Slate Shoals between 2003 and 2018, burning about 2,463 acres in total. 4 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 burning | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE--1017 CR 45300 |
| 6 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS 43 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2648 |
| 30 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 646 |
| 30 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 21 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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.
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 Q122554900 | 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 1368402. 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.