BlockChunky, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Canadian River Breaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79108. The Survey maps it on the Chunky quadrangle. It stands 3,222 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1934 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chunky quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
113 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Chunky between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,355 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lake Meredith National Recreation Area | ROSITA#3 |
| 23 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lake Meredith National Recreation Area | ROSITAFLT |
| 13 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LXRE |
| 12 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 287@ AMARILLO CREEK |
| 10 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Meredith National Recreation Area | LINO |
| 10 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSITA FLATS |
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Lake Meredith National Recreation Area | ROSITA |
| 30 August 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lake Meredith National Recreation Area | SOLO |
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.
| Wikidata item Q5116442 | 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 1379548. 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.