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Black Flat, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76366. The Survey maps it on the Lake Kickapoo quadrangle.

Black Flat within Archer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Black Flat between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,645 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK FLATS FIRE
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON RANCH ROAD FIRE
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service82 & DUNDEE
7 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARKEY RANCH FIRE
7 August 2008Natural35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGOSE CITY FIRE
1 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution680 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOX ROAD FIRE
8 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service07/08/2020C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer 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
Dundee4.5 miles9
Mankins6.3 miles7
Dads Corner8.7 miles9
Holliday11.3 miles8
Hartex12.1 miles8
Archer City13.3 miles9
Luke Wilson15.4 miles9
Anarene17.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379423. 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.