Veach, Texas

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.

• 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Mc Gee Bend quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Veach quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Lufkin quadrangle1:100000
• 2003 USGS Veach quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Veach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,285 acres in total. 10 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• White City
• Anthony Harbor
• Glen Oaks
• Massa
• Parkway

Every fire recorded in San Augustine County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1383708. 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.