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Auburn, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Maypearl census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76050. It stands on Boggy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maypearl quadrangle.

Auburn within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

114 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Auburn between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,118 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 burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-164
28 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service009-190
20 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service012-200
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-159
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service009-176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Maypearl3.6 miles16
Griffith5.0 miles16
Boz7.9 miles11
Plum Grove8.4 miles10
Mountain Peak8.6 miles17
Bell Branch8.9 miles10
Five Points9.4 miles11
Lone Elm11.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377962. 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.