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Twin City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75020. It stands on Loy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherman quadrangle.

Twin City within Grayson 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

251 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Twin City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,337 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined117
Debris and open burning61
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism18
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75FIRE
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75 COMMAND
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service91
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND PARK
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREX CRUSE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 691
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURTHUR
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service691

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Ellsworth0.6 miles12
Woodlake Park0.7 miles12
Frontier Village2.0 miles12
Mills2.2 miles12
Knollwood2.8 miles12
North Sherman Junction3.1 miles12
Sherman Junction3.5 miles12
Denison4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370342. 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.