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Delaware Junction, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blanket census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76432. The Survey maps it on the Blanket quadrangle.

Delaware Junction within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Delaware Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,233 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2

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
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUDSON
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 331
25 September 2012Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresTexas A & M Forest Service327
22 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR291
11 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 321 AND CR 326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Delaware Junction: 15 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Strontium, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alpha Baker MineStrontium, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Celestite
Bettis OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Bird OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Davis ProspectStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Dikes and Chambers DepositStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Dunsworth-Dunn-Hughes OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Evans OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Faulkner MineStrontium, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Celestite
Hightower-Routh OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite
Maner OccurrenceStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Celestite

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Antioch4.9 miles14
Blanket5.1 miles14
Early5.1 miles20
Owens5.2 miles14
Ricker (historical)6.5 miles20
Lake Brownwood8.1 miles17
Brownwood8.4 miles20
Zephyr8.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378204. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.