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Stringtown, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Price-Turnertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75654. The Survey maps it on the Gum Springs quadrangle.

Stringtown within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,370 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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 burning218
Missing data/not specified/undetermined125
Equipment and vehicle use45
Power generation/transmission/distribution38
Natural6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7125
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 492
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6291
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined390 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePRICE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Hickey2.3 miles13
Price2.4 miles13
Gum Springs2.8 miles13
Joinerville4.1 miles13
Good Springs4.3 miles13
Big Springs4.9 miles13
Crimcrest5.0 miles14
Turnertown5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379124. 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.