BlockCamp Air, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mason West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76856. The Survey maps it on the Katemcy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1887 USGS Mason quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Mason quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Katemcy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mason quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Camp Air between 2005 and 2015, burning about 354 acres in total. 4 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | 24 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SR RANCH FIRE |
| 24 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MASON-MCCULLOCH |
| 24 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10584 US87N/PETERPRAIRIESCHOOLHOUSE |
| 4 August 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 87N/SANDYLN |
| 31 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DRY PRONG RD/BNESLONEY |
| 29 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US87N/DRY PRONG RD/BNESLONEY |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katemcy | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Grit | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fredonia | 9.3 miles | 13 | |
| Koockville | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Streeter | 10.6 miles | 13 | |
| Mason | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Art | 14.5 miles | 13 | |
| Grossville | 15.6 miles | 13 |
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 Q122551054 | 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 2035002. 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.