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Courtney, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tarzan-Lenorah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79782. The Survey maps it on the Dickenson Ranch quadrangle.

Courtney within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Courtney between 2008 and 2012, burning about 316 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 use4
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
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
31 August 2010Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12300 FIRE
3 August 2008Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMM 148 WEST FIRE
27 June 2008Natural35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUSTANG DRAW 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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
Dix3.8 miles8
Stanton6.3 miles8
Lenorah11.0 miles8
Grady11.1 miles8
Tarzan11.5 miles8
Merrick16.8 miles8
Brown21.2 miles9
Three Leagues24.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378169. 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.