Cap Rock, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ralls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79357. The Survey maps it on the Cap Rock quadrangle.

Cap Rock within Crosby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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
1966 USGS Cap Rock quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cap Rock between 2008 and 2011, burning about 327 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
23 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6/23 GRASS FIRE
2 April 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONE GIN
27 January 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crosby 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
Owens	5.2 miles	7
Canyon Valley	7.1 miles	7
Savage	7.2 miles	7
Robertson	7.9 miles	7
Ralls	12.6 miles	7
Lorenzo	14.3 miles	7
Crosbyton	14.4 miles	7
Kalgary	14.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Cap Rock	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705268	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 1353792. 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.