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Chaffee Village, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Cavazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76544. The Survey maps it on the Fort Hood quadrangle.

Chaffee Village within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

741 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 741 fires within 5 miles of Chaffee Village between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,099 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined564
Smoking51
Recreation and ceremony33
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service503 N 38TH ST
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service403 CARLEY DR
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON TRIMMIER RD @ E CENTRAL TX EXPY
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1106 RIDGEWAY DR.
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON E STAN SCHLUETER LOOP AT CUNNINGHAM RD
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON REGENCY DR AT E STAN SCHLUETER LOOP
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceON WALES DR AT WILLOW SPRINGS RD

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 Chaffee Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Killeen Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sadler Washer & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
McNair Village0.3 miles15
Killeen2.0 miles18
Walker Village2.0 miles17
Lone Star3.8 miles18
Harker Heights6.3 miles18
Brookhaven8.0 miles17
Curry Crossing8.3 miles17
Mountain View Estates8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122598276The 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 1354248. 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.