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White Oak Junction, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sulphur Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Dike quadrangle.

White Oak Junction within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of White Oak Junction between 2000 and 2020, burning about 597 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 391
31 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6143
4 March 2007Debris and open burning43 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 77
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of White Oak Junction: 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sulphur Springs PlantClayProducer
A D Green Refractories Pit BFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
A P Green Refractories Pit AFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
A P Green Refractories Pit CFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Unnamed PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitsFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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
East Caney1.0 miles9
Brinker2.3 miles9
Weaver3.0 miles9
Mahoney3.7 miles9
Thermo4.4 miles9
Pine Forest4.5 miles8
Bethel5.3 miles8
Como6.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379265. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.