BlockCircleback, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Sand Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79371. The Survey maps it on the Needmore quadrangle. It stands 3,881 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Needmore quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Circleback between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,758 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2015062 |
| 3 August 2016 | Natural | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2016081 |
| 11 August 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS 2011-41 |
| 4 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2016066 |
| 26 July 2017 | Natural | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017055 |
| 9 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017042 |
| 9 June 2010 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS 14 |
| 17 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2020068 |
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 Circleback | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q24284018 | 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 2034717. 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.