Admiral, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Baird census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79504. The Survey maps it on the Admiral quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Baird quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Admiral quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Admiral between 2006 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLE PLAIN FIRE |
| 25 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2228 |
| 24 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CURTIS |
| 1 August 2008 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 473 |
| 3 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM2228 |
| 12 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RATLIFF #2 |
| 11 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RATLIFF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Admiral in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Admiral | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Admiral | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belle Plain | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Jayell | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Rowden | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Putnam | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Cottonwood | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Baird | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Atwell | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Clyde | 12.8 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377919. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





