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Breslau, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hallettsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77964. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle.

Breslau within Lavaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Breslau between 2005 and 2011, burning about 87 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AIDE MOULTON
31 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES FREY
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSVETLIK GF
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAILBOX GF
22 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN STEFFEK
6 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca 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
Witting3.3 miles11
Komensky4.3 miles11
Moravia4.6 miles10
Appelt Hill4.7 miles10
Kinkler5.2 miles10
Hallettsville6.2 miles8
Novohrad6.3 miles11
Wied6.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1331229. 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.