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Cotton Flat, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Midland South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79706. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Midland quadrangle.

Cotton Flat within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

91 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Flat between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,122 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACTION WS FIRE
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINA FIRE
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCR1160ECR153
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCR1185ECR140
10 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceL.M. CONNER
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOVE FIRE
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service805ECR133
17 August 2014Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR 33 AND HILGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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
Ridgeheights1.7 miles9
Sandy Acres1.8 miles9
Midland4.8 miles9
Bounce5.5 miles8
Chub6.9 miles6
Corner Windmill8.3 miles8
Warfield8.4 miles8
Greenwood11.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1333409. 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.