Woosley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75472. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Oak South quadrangle.

Woosley within Rains County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1956 USGS Emory quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Woosley between 2004 and 2017, burning about 74 acres in total. None 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 burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 108
6 July 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4130
23 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 276
22 April 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HART FIRE
13 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLAYTON RANCH FIRE
28 February 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 179
3 January 2006	Arson/incendiarism	44 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 19
28 January 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains 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
Hermits Cove	1.2 miles	13
East Tawakoni	2.4 miles	13
Flats	3.0 miles	14
Point	3.5 miles	14
Prospect	3.9 miles	14
Smyrna	4.0 miles	14
Bois d'Arc	4.2 miles	13
Hooker Ridge	4.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034749. 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.