Tobacco Patch, 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. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle.

Tobacco Patch 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Tobacco Patch between 1992 and 2017, burning about 186 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	27
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
2 September 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON-8084
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 194
29 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
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
Tigerville	2.1 miles	12
Blanchard	2.7 miles	12
West Tempe	4.1 miles	13
Moore Hill	4.4 miles	12
West Livingston	5.7 miles	12
Onalaska	5.7 miles	13
East Tempe	6.5 miles	12
Swartout	7.9 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122561777

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 2034995. 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.