Wildwood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Kountze census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77663. It stands on Big Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

Wildwood within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Warren quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,737 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 25 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	3
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
7 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2000	Debris and open burning	840 acres	Big Thicket National Park	TFS 692
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 215
28 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 630
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8078

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Village Mills	3.1 miles	13
Lelavale	8.6 miles	13
Honey Island	8.9 miles	13
Dies	9.6 miles	13
Bragg	9.7 miles	14
Kountze	12.6 miles	13
Thicket	13.4 miles	14
Votaw	13.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1989109. 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.