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Walnut Ridge, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75416. The Survey maps it on the Detroit quadrangle.

Walnut Ridge within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

239 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Ridge between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,610 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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 burning150
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6219
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2648
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 646
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6158
27 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Post Oak2.6 miles8
Faught2.8 miles8
Lone Star4.0 miles10
Novice4.1 miles10
Blossom4.8 miles8
Medill4.9 miles10
Sun Valley5.5 miles8
Amherst5.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380739. 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.