BlockCarr, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77979. It lies near Arroyo Palo Alto. The Survey maps it on the Placedo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Placedo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Placedo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Carr between 2008 and 2020, burning about 683 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 26 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHOCK |
| 7 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 26 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 616 FIRE |
| 4 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1090 TRACTOR FIRE |
| 6 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON |
| 26 August 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 616 |
| 25 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTON BALER |
| 1 August 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 616 X2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379511. 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.