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Custer City, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76240. The Survey maps it on the Callisburg quadrangle.

Custer City within Cooke 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

242 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Custer City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,241 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 111
28 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM371
28 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke 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
Callisburg2.4 miles13
Oak Ridge2.5 miles13
Woodbine5.3 miles13
Balm5.9 miles12
Gainesville5.9 miles13
Cook6.4 miles13
Sturgeon6.5 miles13
Walnut Bend6.7 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Custer CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705236The 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 1379623. 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.