BlockBell Place Windmill, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valentine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79854. The Survey maps it on the Valentine East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1894 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:125000
- 1959 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Valentine East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Livermore quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bell Place Windmill between 2007 and 2016, burning about 250 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2009 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 90, 1 MILE EAST OF VALENTINE |
| 6 May 2016 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN RANCH FIRE |
| 17 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valentine | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chispa | 14.0 miles | 12 | |
| Fort Davis | 31.6 miles | 12 | |
| Old Place Windmill | 39.9 miles | 12 | |
| Corner Windmill | 42.6 miles | 12 | |
| Saltlick Mill | 46.4 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 Q122549984 | 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 1379403. 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.