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Tupelo, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75155. The Survey maps it on the Chatfield quadrangle.

Tupelo within Navarro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

166 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Tupelo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,284 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1311815
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceC13-11807
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1619262
26 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1401 MCKINNEY FIRE
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC15-13059
22 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGIMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro 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
Chatfield2.5 miles8
Rice3.9 miles8
Roane4.1 miles8
Montfort4.7 miles9
Pettys Chapel6.2 miles10
Valley Farms6.8 miles8
Emhouse8.2 miles9
Corsicana8.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034711. 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.