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Angelina National Forest

William L. Farr · CC BY-SA 4.0

57% trees around it and 96 species recorded.

70Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWild

  • trees within 3 km57%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded96
  • Altitude60 m

The forest around

57% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 86%Grassland 11%Water 3%Built-up 0%Trees 53%Grassland 10%Water 37%Built-up 0%Trees 54%Grassland 6%Water 39%Trees 65%Grassland 8%Water 27%Built-up 0%57%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km53%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km65%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees53%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water37%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

96 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Northern Cardinal
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis44 recordspatricia pierce · CC BY 2.0
Pine Warbler
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus41 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
American Crow
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos38 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blue Jay
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata38 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor37 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Turkey Vulture
Turkey VultureCathartes aura34 recordsJairmoreirafotografia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carolina Wren
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus34 recordsKen Thomas · Public domain
Zebra woodpecker
Zebra woodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus32 recordshttp://www.birdphotos.com · CC BY 3.0
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis32 recordsDickDaniels ( http://carolinabirds.org ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias28 recordsAcarpentier · CC BY 3.0
Northern Mockingbird
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos26 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis25 recordsSandysphotos2009 · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

70out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 57%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 96Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 60 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan14°3°105 mm
  2. Feb16°5°106 mm
  3. Mar21°9°119 mm
  4. Apr25°13°98 mm
  5. May29°18°112 mm
  6. Jun33°22°123 mm
  7. Jul34°23°97 mm
  8. Aug35°23°99 mm
  9. Sep32°20°98 mm
  10. Oct26°14°121 mm
  11. Nov20°8°103 mm
  12. Dec15°4°117 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Angelina National Forest.

National forest in Texas

Angelina National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 57% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

96 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 96 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in November.

Boykin Creek, Angelina National Forest, Angelina County, Texas, USA (November 2020)
William L. Farr · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Angelina National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Angelina National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Moss Hill10 kmRocky Hill11 kmBald Hill12 kmBill Hill19 kmWolf Hill21 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Angelina National Forest, Angelina County, Texas, USA (November 2020)
William L. Farr · CC BY-SA 4.0
FS-Angelina-002 (17145828281)
US Forest Service - Southern Region · Public domain
20231024-FS PJK 0001 (53297614507)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Angelina National Forest

United States

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 96Species

Sabine National Forest

United States · 55 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 95Species

See the guide

Sam Houston National Forest

United States · 121 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 64Species

See the guide

Kisatchie National Forest

United States · 185 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 68Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079099) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,034 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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