BlockAdvance, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76088. It lies near Slipdown Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Adell quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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.
- 1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Adell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
56 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Advance between 2000 and 2018, burning about 1,645 acres in total. None 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 | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 110 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ADVENT FIRE |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOONES CREEK |
| 18 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUSSELL BEND |
| 6 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 140 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1885 |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14801 FM 920 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377920. 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.