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Smyrna, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75551. The Survey maps it on the Ravanna quadrangle.

Smyrna within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Smyrna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,872 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 78 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCASS 21:36
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 535
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 537
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1997Natural60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Bloomburg4.4 miles12
Three States4.6 miles13
Atlanta4.9 miles12
Queen City6.0 miles13
Huffins6.1 miles14
Bethsaida6.2 miles12
Oak Grove6.5 miles12
Bivins7.3 miles12

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 SmyrnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15278274The 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 1347312. 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.