BlockAvant Prairie, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Teague census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75860. It stands on Church Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dew quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1919 USGS Fairfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dew quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
208 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Avant Prairie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 619 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 110 |
| Debris and open burning | 75 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTIAL AID FCR 711 & HWY 179 |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FCR 711 |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REKINDLE HWY 179 |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FCR 711 & HWY 179 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I-45 NB @187 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REKINDLE HWY 179 |
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.
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 Q122545919 | The 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 1380820. 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.