Bozar, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mullin-Priddy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76864. The Survey maps it on the Lake Merritt quadrangle. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Bozar within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1889 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1931 USGS Mullin quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Mullin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Lake Merritt quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Bozar between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,304 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
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
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ETHRIDGE
24 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANDSTONE RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mills 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
Durenville	1.9 miles	14
Mullin	4.6 miles	17
Goldthwaite	4.8 miles	14
Caradan	6.8 miles	13
Big Valley	9.3 miles	16
Villa	10.0 miles	17
Center City	10.5 miles	12
Blanket Springs	10.8 miles	17

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 Bozar	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4952792	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 1377172. 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.