BlockClays Corner, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Farwell-Bovina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79347. The Survey maps it on the Clays Corner quadrangle.
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
- 1963 USGS Clays Corner quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Clays Corner between 2014 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2019066 |
| 7 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2140018 |
| 17 February 2019 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2019021 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379555. 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.