Yarboro, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Navasota census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77868. The Survey maps it on the Stoneham quadrangle.

Yarboro within Grimes 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.

1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Stoneham quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Yarboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,504 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 333
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	UNKNOWN
6 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2928 CR 306
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DOGWOOD GULCH FIRE
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 191
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	5747 STONEHAM MEADOW
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 93
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes 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
Stoneham	2.3 miles	10
Whitehall	2.6 miles	10
Pinebrook	4.7 miles	10
Plantersville	5.0 miles	11
Lynn Grove	5.4 miles	10
Blackberry	6.7 miles	11
Courtney	7.3 miles	10
Todd	7.8 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122572508

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379296. 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.