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Corner Windmill, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Guthrie census division. The Survey maps it on the Pitchfork Ranch quadrangle.

Corner Windmill within King County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Corner Windmill between 2010 and 2014, burning about 70 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 August 2010Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePITCH FORK C.R.371 FIRE
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePITCHFORK
21 April 2014Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePITCHFORK SOUTH CAMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King 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
Gage Corner Windmill3.7 miles8
Guthrie10.0 miles8
Dumont13.2 miles8
Finney13.2 miles8
Grow17.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379593. 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.