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Baby Head, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78643. It lies near Babyhead Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee quadrangle. It stands 1,375 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Baby Head within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Baby Head (historical) between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,550 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
18 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use422 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKHART MOUNTAIN
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 216 BRUSH FIRE
20 July 2015Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARISHER
4 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 414
16 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDER POSTS
21 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFREEMAN FIRE
7 February 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Baby Head (historical): 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Vermiculite, Iron, 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
Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerGranite
Mayes PastureCopper, GoldOccurrence
Goodwin ProspectIronOccurrence
Llano Pit & PlantVermiculiteProducer
Parkhill RanchIronOccurrence
Vermiculite OccurrenceVermiculiteOccurrenceResidual
Griffy Mn ProspectManganeseOccurrenceStratabound
Horse MountainManganeseOccurrence
Horse Mountain ProspectManganeseProspect1910

Every working recorded in Llano 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
Lone Grove6.6 miles16
Valley Spring8.9 miles18
Llano9.0 miles17
Stolz9.2 miles16
Tow9.6 miles18
Bluffton9.8 miles18
Buchanan Lake Village11.1 miles18
Golden Beach11.4 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Baby Head (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4838301The 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 1351376. 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.