BlockBeatty Place, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. The Survey maps it on the Gilliland Peak quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1923 USGS Altuda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Gilliland Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Beatty Place between 2006 and 2009, burning about 32,103 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2009 | Natural | 400 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLAKEMORE |
| 17 June 2006 | Natural | 4,884 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEST |
| 17 June 2006 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILLER ROAD |
| 16 June 2006 | Natural | 3,532 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLUE CANYON |
| 14 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 282 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PASIANO FIRE |
| 24 April 2008 | Natural | 23,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CATHEDRAL FIRE |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwards Place | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Altuda | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Lenox | 9.4 miles | 13 | |
| Youngblood Place | 9.5 miles | 12 | |
| Old Parker Place | 10.5 miles | 12 | |
| Old Oscar Nance Place | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Old Beekley Place | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Marathon | 12.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122546860 | 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 1377980. 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.