BlockBenonine, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Shamrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79079. The Survey maps it on the Fuller quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Fulller quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Shamrock quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Benonine between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,581 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARBON BLACK RD GRASS FIRE |
| 10 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I 40 & CO RD 29 |
| 10 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 350 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EMMERT FIRE |
| 14 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE LINE ROAD |
| 10 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NOV-17 |
| 27 December 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 January 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 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.
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 Benonine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196358 | 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 1379406. 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.