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Winterfield, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pickton-Pine Forest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75471. The Survey maps it on the Purley quadrangle.

Winterfield 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Winterfield between 1998 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3170, JUST NORTH OF CR 3250
23 September 2005Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 391
26 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3250 / CR 3170
14 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPKINS CR 2391
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2391
24 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 39

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bethel2.4 miles8
Pine Hill2.5 miles9
Pine Forest2.8 miles8
Greenwood2.9 miles9
Pickton3.5 miles8
Morris Grove3.7 miles9
Humble4.0 miles9
Harmony4.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380941. 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.