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Cargray, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Deer-Groom census division. The Survey maps it on the Skellytown quadrangle.

Cargray within Carson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

115 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Cargray between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11,096 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined42
Power generation/transmission/distribution24
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking11
Natural10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARRINGTON HQ
19 September 2019Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1059152 FIRE
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3 SUNDAY FIRE
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGHOST 1
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAWKINS
24 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUBBLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cargray: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cargray Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Carson 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
Skellytown4.1 miles6
White Deer5.6 miles6
Cuyler10.2 miles7
Hillard14.0 miles7
Panhandle16.0 miles6
McBride16.9 miles7
Abell17.3 miles6
Pomeroy18.3 miles7

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 Q122571300The 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 1379506. 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.