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Bentonville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Alice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78332. The Survey maps it on the Agua Dulce quadrangle.

Bentonville within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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

43 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Bentonville between 2003 and 2017, burning about 2,122 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAD HIGH SCHOOL
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3600 E.TEXAS 44 FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN.HWY 359& F.M. 1539 FIRE
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceN.359& E.44 FIRE
27 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE.HWY.44 BY DORSAL FIRE
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE.C.R.336 OFF 665 FIRE.
15 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE.HWY 44 , 5 MILES E.OFALICE
14 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE.44-8 MILES E.OF ALICE.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells 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.

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 BentonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4890650The 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 1377994. 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.