Calvert Junction, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Calvert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77837. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle.

Calvert Junction within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Calvert quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

40 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Calvert Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 579 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 6 NORTH OF MUD CREEK
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	W. KEZEE
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TIDWELL RD.
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STROUD FIRE
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MESQUITE @ COTTONWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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
Barton	2.1 miles	8
Marvin	2.6 miles	8
Calvert	4.2 miles	8
Goodland	5.5 miles	8
Port Sullivan	5.7 miles	7
Seger	6.2 miles	7
Salter	6.4 miles	8
Valley Junction	8.7 miles	7

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 Q122565008

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 1379496. 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.