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Click, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78643. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Click quadrangle. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Click within Llano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Click between 2008 and 2020, burning about 842 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2020Natural406 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMANCHE CREEK
2 August 2018Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVADA
14 August 2008Debris and open burning70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use109 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOTT
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service308A RECALL
17 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 71@ CR 309

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Llano County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Click: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Quartz. 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
Cactus Canyon Quarries OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Coal Creek AreaTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceMetamorphic
Riley Mountain AreaIronOccurrence
Roberts ProspectArsenicOccurrence1756
Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, QuartzPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStoneProducerSerpentine

Every working recorded in Llano 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
Oxford7.5 miles16
Gainesville8.4 miles15
Sunrise Beach Village9.0 miles19
Kingsland9.6 miles20
Lakeside Heights12.2 miles20
Horseshoe Bay12.6 miles19
Buchanan Dam14.3 miles20
Llano14.6 miles17

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 ClickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5132393The 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 1379560. 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.