BlockSouth Shore, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waskom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75661. It stands on Saunders Branch. The Survey maps it on the Potters Point quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1944 USGS Caddo Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Caddo Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Potters Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
106 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of South Shore between 1993 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 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 | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS/WOODS |
| 9 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 541 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCOTT HARDY |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 152 |
| 3 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379095. 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.