Walnut Bend, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76273. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Bend quadrangle.

Walnut Bend within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1902 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1943 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Horseshoe Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

71 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Bend between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,010 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE
6 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	39 acres	Chickasaw Agency	STEVEN'S SPRINGS
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DEXTER FIRE
4 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	9.3 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ADDINGTON BEND
28 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 110
26 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WALNUT BEND
26 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke 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
Coesfield	3.2 miles	13
Sturgeon	5.0 miles	13
Balm	5.2 miles	12
Dexter	6.0 miles	13
Callisburg	6.3 miles	13
Custer City	6.7 miles	13
Oak Ridge	9.1 miles	13
Sivells Bend	9.8 miles	13

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 Walnut Bend	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127604132	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 2034690. 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.