Small, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Edgewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75117. The Survey maps it on the Fruitvale quadrangle.

Small within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1962 USGS Fruitvale quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

72 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Small between 1996 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MIKE GOODE
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-152
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
13 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-156
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	63 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VAN ZANDT 16:23
8 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	7085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Small: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Edgewood Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer

Every working recorded in Van Zandt 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
Edgewood	3.7 miles	12
Fruitvale	5.0 miles	11
Elwood	5.2 miles	12
Clifton	7.4 miles	14
Lawrence Springs	7.9 miles	11
Wills Point	8.6 miles	10
Grand Saline	9.0 miles	15
Myrtle Springs	10.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1347245. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.