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Coalville, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Strawn-Gordon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76453. It stands on Barton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle.

Coalville within Palo Pinto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

193 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Coalville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,632 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use84
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7R - #4
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILMORE
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREED
4 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAKER
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service370I20
27 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service374I20
22 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY193

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto 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
Gordon2.7 miles16
Gordon Junction2.9 miles16
Mingus5.4 miles16
Santo6.5 miles21
Lyra7.4 miles16
Lone Camp7.9 miles16
Strawn8.9 miles16
Metcalf Gap10.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378137. 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.