BlockCorlena, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Texline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79087. The Survey maps it on the Corlena quadrangle.
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 Corlena quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Corlena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Corlena between 2007 and 2019, burning about 445 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 use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2007 | Natural | 350 acres | Cibola National Forest | RB3 |
| 12 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PERICO FIRE |
| 27 July 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARIZO |
| 1 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE TRAILER TIRE |
| 13 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 acres | Cibola National Forest | RB2 |
| 7 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Cibola National Forest | RB-2 |
| 18 November 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perico | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Texline | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Thompson Grove | 9.7 miles | 7 | |
| Windy Hill | 13.8 miles | 6 | |
| Bunker Hill | 13.8 miles | 6 | |
| Buffalo Springs | 14.9 miles | 7 | |
| Ware | 15.3 miles | 6 | |
| Coldwater | 18.9 miles | 7 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122545431 | 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 1381701. 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.