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Baker, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76035. The Survey maps it on the Chapin quadrangle.

Baker within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

78 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Baker between 2003 and 2019, burning about 2,252 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILBURN
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONROE HWY.
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL FIRE
15 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILBURN
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLEBURNE HWY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Tin Top4.7 miles20
Western Lake5.4 miles20
Annetta South7.1 miles17
Harmony8.8 miles18
Buckner9.3 miles18
Annetta9.4 miles17
Bethel9.5 miles18
Powell Crossing9.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377968. 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.