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Clearwater, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75480. The Survey maps it on the Newsome quadrangle.

Clearwater within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

204 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Clearwater between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,462 acres in total. 11 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3522
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRACE LUTHERAN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4360 / GAS PLANT
6 September 2010Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 163
4 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11 WEST
29 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6224

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clearwater: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
New Hope Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Scroggins2.0 miles13
New Hope2.1 miles9
Rock Springs3.3 miles13
Cypress4.7 miles9
Purley7.1 miles9
Majors7.2 miles9
Macon7.3 miles9
Hopewell8.5 miles9

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 ClearwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130921The 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 1378128. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.