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Daniels, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Washington-Chappell Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77880. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Daniels quadrangle.

Daniels within Washington 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

79 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Daniels between 2006 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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
9 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPPEL HILL SPOT FIRE
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS RIVER LANE
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Goodwill3.2 miles8
Whitman3.5 miles8
Brown College4.3 miles8
Chappell Hill4.7 miles9
Earlywine5.5 miles9
Graball5.9 miles10
Wiedeville7.3 miles9
Sauney Stand7.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378200. 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.