Cayote, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76689. It stands on Womack Branch. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Park quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Cayote within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
1931 USGS Whitney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Laguna Park quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

56 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Cayote between 2005 and 2020, burning about 747 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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	27
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	3

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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUDY PAUL
9 September 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAMMY LEACH
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 3450 WILDLAND FIRE
10 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CLIFTON SMITH
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MCMILLIAN VEHICLE/ GRASS
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS/BRUSH #13 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque 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
Womack	5.1 miles	15
Pendell	5.8 miles	12
Greenock	5.9 miles	16
Rock Springs	6.1 miles	16
Clifton	6.4 miles	12
Laguna Park	7.5 miles	15
Valley Mills	7.6 miles	16
Smiths Bend	9.2 miles	16

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 Cayote	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19460895	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 1378102. 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.