Carlson, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78615. The Survey maps it on the Coupland quadrangle.

Carlson within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Coupland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Carlson between 2006 and 2016, burning about 215 acres in total. 1 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	7
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
29 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WINDFARM RD
27 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	16064154
16 June 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13-0000662
30 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13-0000587
3 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 March 2008	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis 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
Manda	1.9 miles	17
Lund	3.3 miles	17
New Sweden	3.5 miles	17
Cele	3.9 miles	17
New Katy	6.8 miles	17
Littig	7.5 miles	16
Manor	8.2 miles	17
Pflugerville	8.9 miles	17

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 Carlson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121832760	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 1353827. 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.