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Alvery Junction, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the San Angelo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76903. The Survey maps it on the San Angelo South quadrangle.

Alvery Junction within Tom Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

67 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Alvery Junction between 2001 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY 277
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUGLAS/HWY 67 GRASS FIRE
7 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARMSTRONG FIRE
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY 67
4 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service200 BLK CEDARWOOD DR
25 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2105 BRUSH PILE
17 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4138 US 67 NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tom Green County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alvery Junction: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sanco Materials CorporationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilson Paving Company OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tom Green 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
San Angelo1.6 miles17
Sixmile Crossing4.1 miles13
S N Junction4.8 miles17
Harriet6.9 miles15
Veribest8.4 miles13
Wall9.4 miles13
Grape Creek9.7 miles11
Mullins Crossing11.2 miles14

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 Q122594744The 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 1379338. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.