Carter, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76208. The Survey maps it on the Denton East quadrangle.

Carter within Denton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denton East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Carter between 2005 and 2018, burning about 721 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2444 WEST OAK STREET
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1316 EAST MCKINNEY STREET
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2900 N. LOCUST STREET
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	N ELM STREET
16 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LONG ROAD
23 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9100 TEASLEY
16 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SWISHER ROAD FIRE
8 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	W. UNIVERSITY DRIVE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton 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
Mayhill	1.3 miles	11
Denton	2.4 miles	10
Jagoe	2.8 miles	10
Minchin	2.9 miles	10
Corinth	3.2 miles	11
Cooper Creek	3.6 miles	11
Shady Shores	4.2 miles	11
Mingo	4.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378094. 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.