Ashmore, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seagraves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79342. The Survey maps it on the Ashmore quadrangle.

Ashmore within Gaines County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Ashmore quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ashmore between 2005 and 2012, burning about 2,295 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
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
12 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)
12 July 2011	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	12 MILES S ON FM 403
28 March 2010	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 November 2010	Natural	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 403 & CR 690
28 November 2010	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	APACHE FIRE REKINDLE
4 October 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 January 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	600 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)
10 January 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

White City

Every fire recorded in Gaines 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White City	4.8 miles	6
Loop	7.3 miles	6
Seagraves	15.3 miles	6
Fairview	20.4 miles	6
Seminole	23.7 miles	6
Paynes Corner	30.3 miles	6
Higginbotham	37.8 miles	6
State Line	43.7 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377958. 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.