Westbrook, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It lies near Stivers Hill. The Survey maps it on the Newsome quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Westbrook within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Newsome quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

184 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Westbrook between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE ON 4460
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11 WEST
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 650
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUS DRIVER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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
Musgrove	2.3 miles	13
Winnsboro	3.3 miles	13
Webster	4.2 miles	13
Stout	4.6 miles	12
Pineview	4.6 miles	13
Ogburn	6.0 miles	14
Perryville	6.2 miles	14
East Point	7.1 miles	12

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 Q31583514

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 1379256. 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.