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Westwood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75951. It stands on Fuller Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ebenezer quadrangle.

Westwood within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Westwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,532 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 43 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSANDY POINT
28 September 1994Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
Harveytown0.8 miles13
Ebenezer3.3 miles13
Ferguson3.6 miles13
Sam Rayburn6.7 miles13
Homer7.9 miles15
Horton10.4 miles9
Browndell10.5 miles9
Bevilport11.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1383649. 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.