Carter, Texas

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.

• 1891 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1932 USGS Springtown quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Springtown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Carter between 2005 and 2019, burning about 857 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Goshen
• Agnes
• Poolville
• Wright
• Dicey
• Springtown

Every fire recorded in Parker County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378093. 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.