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Whitehead, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Quinlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75160. The Survey maps it on the Terrell North quadrangle.

Whitehead within Hunt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

96 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Whitehead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 399 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMC
7 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOW FIRE
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHRIS
25 September 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 986
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1565
22 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUV
2 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHANSIN
2 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 35 & CR 2546

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt 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
Union Valley4.1 miles11
Harris5.9 miles13
Quinlan7.2 miles12
Hawk Cove9.6 miles13
Burrow9.8 miles9
Boles Home10.0 miles13
Hendrix10.7 miles6
Cash11.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379269. 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.