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Chatt, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76645. The Survey maps it on the Abbott quadrangle.

Chatt within Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

183 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Chatt between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,007 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined96
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1311
9 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePINE STREET FIRE
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1242 M/A ABBOTT DISREGARD
22 September 2019Other causes10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceABBOTT STRUCTURE FIRE
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3137
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1127 HWY 22
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 3214 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill 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
Winslow4.0 miles14
Abbott4.2 miles14
Vaughan4.9 miles14
Bynum5.0 miles14
Hillsboro5.1 miles15
Menlow6.3 miles15
Peoria7.4 miles14
Lakenon8.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378116. 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.