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Cleveland, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Santa Anna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76878. The Survey maps it on the Santa Anna quadrangle. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Cleveland within Coleman 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

67 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,467 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS /BRUSH FIRE
8 August 2013Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BRUSH FIRE
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2006Natural103 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1176 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman 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
Obregon3.3 miles14
Liberty3.7 miles14
Santa Anna5.8 miles13
Trickham6.3 miles13
Buffalo8.2 miles15
San Angelo Junction9.1 miles13
Shields10.7 miles12
Fisk12.5 miles13

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 Q34795726The 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 1378131. 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.