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Byrdtown, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blossom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75416. The Survey maps it on the Deport quadrangle.

Byrdtown within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

111 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Byrdtown between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,440 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning80
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1700 FM 2120
27 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
22 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND/GRASS FIRE
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 448
18 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMADEWELL RD
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONNOT RANCH
5 August 2011Debris and open burning210 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 367

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Hoover2.3 miles8
Pattonville2.7 miles8
Blossom3.6 miles8
Sylvan4.3 miles8
Sun Valley4.9 miles8
Jennings5.8 miles8
Marvin6.2 miles8
Reno6.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380823. 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.