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Trinity Park, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75002. It stands on White Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wylie quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Trinity Park within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

171 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Park between 2005 and 2017, burning about 312 acres in total. 3 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 burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-365
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARKER RD
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-362
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0258
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-389
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-350
22 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service13-0281

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Trinity Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collin 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
Seis Lagos1.7 miles12
Branch1.7 miles12
Lucas1.9 miles12
Winningkoff2.0 miles12
Clear Lake2.6 miles11
Beverly Hill3.1 miles11
Saint Paul3.3 miles12
Yucote Acres3.4 miles11

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 Trinity ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076600The 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 1348788. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.