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Cedar Shores, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Meridian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76671. It sits by Bee Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Allen Bend quadrangle.

Cedar Shores within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Shores between 2005 and 2020, burning about 808 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKV RANCH FIRE
21 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service23
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLAG FIRE
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR1105-2
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEASY LANE
3 August 2016Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4916
3 August 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1408

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lakewood Harbor2.4 miles16
Laguna Park6.2 miles15
Lakeside Village6.6 miles18
Womack7.3 miles15
Kopperl9.9 miles17
Bosque10.2 miles12
Smiths Bend10.3 miles16
Morgan10.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034665. 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.