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Woodcrest Acres, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lumberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77657. The Survey maps it on the Voth quadrangle.

Woodcrest Acres within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Woodcrest Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,622 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 34 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 211
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2008Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rose Hill Acres2.2 miles14
Loeb2.4 miles14
Fletcher2.6 miles13
Lumberton2.8 miles13
Seth4.9 miles13
Silsbee8.3 miles13
Pinewood Estates8.7 miles12
Pine Ridge9.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1350522. 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.