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Corley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Maud-Redwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75567. The Survey maps it on the Corley quadrangle.

Corley within Bowie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

183 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Corley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,911 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning121
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOWIE 13:22
7 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 638
5 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDYER
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service549 CR1116
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1116 & HWY 67
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1112

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie 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
Carbondale2.6 miles13
Maud2.8 miles13
Old Union3.9 miles13
Old Boston5.5 miles14
Simms6.2 miles11
Redwater7.7 miles13
Boston8.1 miles14
Bassett8.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380832. 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.