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Waterman, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Timpson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75935. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle.

Waterman within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Waterman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning46 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2013Fireworks7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7102
8 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHELBY 16:30
5 August 2013Fireworks1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7071
28 August 2011Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 471
24 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 423

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Aiken3.4 miles11
Grigsby3.8 miles11
Arcadia4.5 miles11
Mount Herman4.8 miles11
Stockman4.8 miles11
Silas7.8 miles11
Jericho8.1 miles11
Huber8.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034736. 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.