Vessey, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Annona-Avery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75426. The Survey maps it on the White Rock quadrangle.

Vessey within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Vessey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,267 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 15 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	64
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2

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
30 September 2004	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 189
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 172
27 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 178
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 6250
2 September 2013	Natural	11 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6288
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 159

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vessey: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Red River 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
Dilworth	1.4 miles	10
Reeds Settlement	2.4 miles	10
Hopewell	3.3 miles	8
Acworth	3.8 miles	9
Vandalia	4.3 miles	8
Madras	4.4 miles	10
Bryarly	4.4 miles	10
White Rock	4.9 miles	10

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 Q122544485

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 1380721. 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.