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Soules Chapel, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bettie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75644. It stands on Copper Branch. The Survey maps it on the Thomas quadrangle.

Soules Chapel within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

384 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Soules Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,529 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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 burning244
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Natural11
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
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
8 September 2015Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0282
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOX ROAD GRASS FIRE
8 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSQUIRREL RD BRUSH FIRE
6 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUPSHUR 13:27
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1002 COMMAND
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism388 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOAD RD. FIRE
5 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 157

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur 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 Soules Chapel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Upshur 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
Simpsonville2.1 miles13
Thomas2.1 miles13
Grice2.9 miles13
Bethlehem4.5 miles12
Brumley4.6 miles12
Enon4.8 miles13
Union Hill5.1 miles12
Piney Grove5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122568789The 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 2034726. 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.