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Clearview, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek-Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bastrop quadrangle.

Clearview within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

178 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Clearview between 1993 and 2020, burning about 978 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATTERSON
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCALLISTER ROAD - 184
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1209
22 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLEARVIEW
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 124
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Hills Prairie2.4 miles17
Shiloh (historical)4.2 miles15
Upton4.4 miles17
Watterson4.6 miles11
Bastrop4.8 miles17
Rockne6.0 miles11
Alum Creek6.5 miles17
Jordan7.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1332961. 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.