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Brock Junction, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76066. It stands on Little Grindstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brock quadrangle.

Brock Junction within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

141 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Brock Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning39
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

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
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePC TASK FORCE
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGHOLSON ROAD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD BROCK ROAD
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service403 MM WB INTERSTATE 20
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGHOLSON ROAD FIRE
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENWOOD FIRE
6 August 2020Natural37 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENWOOD RD
27 August 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brock Junction: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bennett PlantClayProducer
Abandoned PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Industrial QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Parker 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
Brock2.0 miles18
Millsap4.2 miles20
Bennett5.0 miles20
Preble5.4 miles18
Fox5.5 miles18
Maxwell Crossing5.7 miles18
Stephens Crossing5.8 miles18
Dennis6.0 miles18

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 Q122540795The 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 1378051. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.