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Becker, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kaufman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Kemp quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Becker within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

196 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Becker between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,004 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-378
5 September 2011Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIBA
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service175
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAIRY QUEEN
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR114 EGYPT
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-388
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4031
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 147

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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
Rand3.6 miles10
Kemp3.7 miles13
Jiba4.0 miles10
Prairieville5.6 miles11
Ola5.9 miles10
Oak Grove6.6 miles10
Stubbs7.2 miles10
Grays Prairie7.7 miles10

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 BeckerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076407The 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 1377981. 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.