Beacon, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reagan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76680. It stands on Bee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Reagan quadrangle.

Beacon within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Reagan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Beacon between 2009 and 2018, burning about 471 acres in total. 1 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 burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEELE RD. FIRE
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-095
31 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RETURN TO RAILROAD FIRES
28 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RICHARDSON STUP FIRE
15 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDERVILLE FIRE
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REKINDLE OF HASH FIRE
20 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BONDS RANCH
2 July 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 211 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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
Highbank	1.5 miles	7
Coymack	1.6 miles	7
Reagan	2.9 miles	7
Eloise	4.1 miles	7
Cedar Springs	5.7 miles	7
Pleasant Grove	6.1 miles	7
Wilderville	6.6 miles	7
Sunrise	7.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379398. 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.