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Center Point, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76020. The Survey maps it on the Azle quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Center Point within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

90 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 2005 and 2014, burning about 1,642 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service217 CR 4860
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13350 BRIAR RD
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service960 JENNINGS LN
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 OLD RENO RD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7633 VEAL STATION RD
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1811 HIGHLAND CIR
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVEAL STATION AND FM 730
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILLEY ROAD AND NEWSOME MOUND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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 Center Point: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Trinity Division Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant 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
Peden1.3 miles20
Pelican Bay1.6 miles20
Lake Forest1.7 miles20
Azle2.8 miles20
Eagle Acres3.7 miles20
Pecan Acres4.3 miles16
Castle Hill Estate4.9 miles15
Lakeview5.2 miles16

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 Center PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076430The 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 1332540. 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.