Tigerville, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle.

Tigerville within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Blanchard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Tigerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 875
29 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 323
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 194
2 August 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COTTON HILLS FIRE
17 August 2014	Natural	27 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tobacco Patch	2.1 miles	12
Moore Hill	2.4 miles	12
Blanchard	2.6 miles	12
West Livingston	3.8 miles	12
West Tempe	4.2 miles	13
East Tempe	4.7 miles	12
Swartout	5.7 miles	12
Lamont	7.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380934. 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.