Bloomfield, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gainesville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76272. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Springs quadrangle.

Bloomfield within Cooke 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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Mountain Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 2005 and 2018, burning about 621 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 922
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALLEY VIEW ASSIST
24 September 2013	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALLEY VIEW ASSIST
22 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAKE KIOWA MUTUAL AID
13 September 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALLEY VIEW ASSIST
10 September 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALLEY VIEW ASSIST
8 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VALLEY VIEW ASSIST
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mountain Springs	2.9 miles	9
Hemming	3.8 miles	9
Road Runner	4.6 miles	9
Burns City	4.8 miles	13
Valley View	8.5 miles	8
Shady Grove	8.8 miles	12
Lake Kiowa	9.1 miles	13
Lois	10.9 miles	8

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 Bloomfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705234	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 1379431. 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.