Canyon, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Slaton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79403. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Springs Lake quadrangle.

Canyon within Lubbock 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Buffalo Springs Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

44 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Canyon between 2006 and 2018, burning about 64 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	27
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 272 & FM 831
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1701 PARKWAY DRIVE
20 August 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMALL GRASS FIRE
2 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	226 DAVID AVE
4 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	835 GRASSFIRE
16 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1907 E COLGATE
12 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANSOM GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gray Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
	H L Stafford Const Co Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lubbock 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
Roosevelt	3.1 miles	8
Kitalou	4.3 miles	8
Buffalo Springs Lake	4.4 miles	8
Ransom Canyon	4.9 miles	8
Burris	5.3 miles	11
Idalou	5.7 miles	8
Acuff	5.9 miles	7
Lubbock	6.6 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 Canyon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705263	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 1353771. 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.