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Cedar Valley, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76571. The Survey maps it on the Youngsport quadrangle.

Cedar Valley within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

71 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 920 acres in total. None 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROOKING FIRE
19 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2014Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLLAMA RANCH
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1389 CR 232
31 August 2019Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIREFLY ROAD
21 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY LINE
17 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service23964 FIREFLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Valley: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bandas Industries Inc Reed,S LakeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Bell 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
Youngsport4.2 miles15
Prairie Dell5.4 miles14
Ding Dong7.1 miles15
Union Grove7.7 miles19
Salado7.9 miles14
Mountain View Estates8.2 miles16
Maxdale10.2 miles15
Harker Heights12.3 miles18

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 Cedar ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331276The 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 2034696. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.