BlockColdwater, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Coldwater West quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,183 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Dalhart quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Coldwater West quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Coldwater West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Coldwater between 2006 and 2009, burning about 1,050 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2009 | Natural | 23 acres | Cibola National Forest | COLDWATER |
| 13 June 2006 | Natural | 700 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2006 | Natural | 320 acres | Cibola National Forest | RB-45 |
| 20 April 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Cibola National Forest | COLDWATER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coldwater in 4 storm reports in 1994: 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Springs | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Thompson Grove | 9.7 miles | 7 | |
| Perico | 17.5 miles | 7 | |
| Corlena | 18.9 miles | 7 | |
| Ware | 19.2 miles | 6 | |
| Kerrick | 20.7 miles | 7 | |
| Texline | 21.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bolin | 21.8 miles | 6 |
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 Coldwater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22073188 | The 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 1381678. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.