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Belt Junction, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76110. The Survey maps it on the Fort Worth quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Belt Junction within Tarrant County

On record in Belt Junction

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

543 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 543 fires within 5 miles of Belt Junction between 2006 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined484
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARNSWORTH
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2500
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH FREEWAY
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELCH
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSEDALE
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN HENDERSON
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW LANCASTER
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE MORPHY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Fort Worth2.5 miles16
Edgecliff Village3.0 miles16
Lytle4.2 miles16
Westover Hills4.4 miles15
Forest Hill4.9 miles16
Moselle4.9 miles16
Westworth5.0 miles17
River Oaks5.7 miles17

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 Q22076408The 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 1377987. 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.