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Strain, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sour Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77659. It lies near Stockpen Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Thorson Gully quadrangle.

Strain within Hardin 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Strain between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,013 acres in total. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 697
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 665
29 September 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 951
12 September 2019Natural74 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARDIN 18:45
21 August 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Hathaway3.6 miles12
Sour Lake7.3 miles12
Grayburg7.3 miles11
Rattlesnake Bend7.8 miles13
Batson8.6 miles13
Saratoga10.5 miles14
Pine Ridge11.6 miles12
Pinewood Estates12.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379122. 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.