Boss, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76126. The Survey maps it on the Cresson quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Boss within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Cresson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Cresson quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Boss between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,274 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CRESSON FIRE
5 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHISOLM TR
2 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CROSSTIE FIRE
15 April 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 April 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEN DAY MURRIN
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Winscott	2.2 miles	17
Plover	2.7 miles	12
Wheatland	4.5 miles	17
Saint Francis Village	5.0 miles	12
Lake Shore Estates	5.3 miles	15
Primrose	5.5 miles	12
Crowley	7.9 miles	14
Benbrook	8.5 miles	15

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 Boss	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14710345	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 1378036. 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.