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Stringtown, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75966. The Survey maps it on the Shankleville quadrangle.

Stringtown within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,990 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 101 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/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Simmonsville3.6 miles9
Trotti4.9 miles9
Quicksand5.0 miles9
Liberty5.3 miles9
Shankleville6.1 miles9
Burkeville6.7 miles9
Wiergate7.7 miles9
Newton8.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380617. 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.