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Cedar Valley, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southwest Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78736. The Survey maps it on the Signal Hill quadrangle.

Cedar Valley within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

108 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10407 SPRING VALLEY
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service104241
2 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8700 THUNDERBIRD
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service91183
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9718 LEDGESTONE
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9902 OLIVER
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOWANA & MOWINKLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Valley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flint. 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
UnnamedFlintPast ProducerFlint

Every working recorded in Travis 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
Oak Hill5.2 miles18
Bee Cave6.0 miles23
Barton Creek6.3 miles25
Shady Hollow6.4 miles18
Kincheonville6.5 miles18
Tanglewood Forest7.0 miles18
Williamson7.1 miles18
Ford Oaks7.4 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 Q121832694The 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 1373030. 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.