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Antelope Gap, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goldthwaite census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76853. The Survey maps it on the Antelope Gap quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Antelope Gap within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Antelope Gap (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,666 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONAHAM FIRE
17 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service817 CR 2659
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1280 S HWY 183

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills 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
Scallorn1.7 miles12
Castor5.0 miles15
Pleasant Grove5.0 miles12
Double Ford7.2 miles15
Goldthwaite11.4 miles14
Big Valley11.5 miles16
Center City11.7 miles12
Star13.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1351154. 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.