BlockChamberlin, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Wilco NE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Chamberlin quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Chamberlin between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,150 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 54 EAST 7 MILES |
| 23 July 2011 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAMBERLAIN RD |
| 2 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 121 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOWER ROAD |
| 17 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAMBIRLIN #2 |
| 16 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAMBIRLIN |
| 13 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7 EAST ON HWY 54 |
| 27 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOWER RD |
| 2 June 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHAMBERLAIN RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Chamberlin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q127705250 | The 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 1379529. 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.