Buckner, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the McKinney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75071. It stands on Franklin Branch. The Survey maps it on the McKinney West quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Buckner within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS McKinney West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

94 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Buckner between 2006 and 2017, burning about 98 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	59
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHASTA & CRANBERRY
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1244 GRAY BRANCH
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4001 N 75
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1414 S TENNESSEE
4 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	100 CENTRAL EXSPY
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	S AIRPORT RD
25 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2970 CR 338
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1024 S MURRAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Bloomdale	2.2 miles	11
McKinney	2.9 miles	11
Parris (historical)	3.9 miles	8
Roland	4.3 miles	7
Fairview	4.5 miles	11
Rhea Mills	4.8 miles	7
New Hope	5.2 miles	11
Wetsel	6.2 miles	11

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 Buckner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197664	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 1378065. 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.