Youens, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77306. The Survey maps it on the Cut And Shoot quadrangle.

Youens within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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
1959 USGS Cut and Shoot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Cut And Shoot quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Youens between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,952 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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	115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8073
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH FORK
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONROE - 196
6 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Cut and Shoot	1.5 miles	13
Four Corners	1.6 miles	14
Waukegan	1.9 miles	13
Beach	2.5 miles	14
Groceville	2.8 miles	13
Deerwood	3.9 miles	13
Conroe	4.3 miles	14
Wigginsville	4.4 miles	13

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 Q21551842

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 1383217. 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.