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Coburn, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Higgins census division. The Survey maps it on the Coburn quadrangle.

Coburn within Lipscomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Coburn between 2006 and 2019, burning about 35,645 acres in total. 1 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 use9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2011Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 60 LIPSCOMB CO.
27 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 60 EAST
21 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 60 EAST ON CO. LINE
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 60 LIPSCONMB CO.
31 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCORKER
8 June 2006Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lipscomb 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
Higgins7.8 miles6
Locust Grove11.8 miles6
Lipscomb13.1 miles6
Barton Corners18.7 miles6
Magoun22.3 miles6
Twin Grove23.6 miles6
Follett25.4 miles6
Sherlock26.4 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379564. 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.