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Clifton, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Wills Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75169. It stands on Wills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iron Bridge Dam quadrangle.

Clifton within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

117 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Clifton between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,660 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2013Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZ CO RD 3808 @ FM 2475
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4809 VZCR 3502
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 470
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM47 &VZCR 3528
3 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 3724

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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
Elwood3.5 miles12
Alsa3.7 miles12
Wills Point5.3 miles10
Small7.4 miles11
Edgewood7.8 miles12
Fruitvale11.7 miles11
Myrtle Springs12.3 miles13
Scott13.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034729. 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.