BlockBefore

Cardiff, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brookshire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77423. The Survey maps it on the Brookshire quadrangle.

Cardiff within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cardiff in 2009, burning about 150 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 use1

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
7 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Johnsue1.6 miles9
Brookshire2.4 miles9
Pattison5.4 miles9
Clemons8.2 miles13
Sunny Side11.2 miles11
Monaville13.4 miles11
Waller18.7 miles15
Pine Island20.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378092. 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.