BlockCoyote Corner, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Andrews South census division. The Survey maps it on the Coyote Corner quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Coyote Corner quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Coyote Corner between 2006 and 2017, burning about 2,312 acres in total. 3 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011531 |
| 13 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011456 |
| 7 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011328 |
| 2 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEVONIAN FIRE |
| 31 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUNRAY FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Place Windmills | 11.1 miles | 5 | |
| McKinney Acres | 17.0 miles | 5 | |
| Andrews | 17.4 miles | 5 | |
| Frankel City | 19.4 miles | 5 | |
| Shafter Lake (historical) | 20.8 miles | 5 | |
| Waldon Place Windmill | 21.2 miles | 5 | |
| Florey | 24.9 miles | 5 | |
| Sixteen Corner Windmill | 31.1 miles | 5 |
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 Q122553632 | 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 1378172. 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.