BlockSycamore, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76234. It stands on Harts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slidell quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Slidell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Sycamore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2272OLDGREENWOODRD09192020 |
| 16 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2249CR244508302018 |
| 3 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD GREENWOOD 8-3-2011 |
| 28 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | CLAYTON |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Sycamore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q130283910 | The 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 1380635. 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.