BlockBrickel, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stratford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79084. The Survey maps it on the Brickel quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Brickel quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Brickel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Brickel between 2006 and 2018, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3 EAST OF CONLEN |
| 28 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 56 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALLEN HORN PLACE |
| 13 June 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4 WEST OF STRATFORD ON HWY 54 |
| 15 April 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTREY CLUB LN. & LITTLE RD. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122554101 | 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 1381513. 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.