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Dessau Fountains, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Northeast Travis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78753. The Survey maps it on the Pflugerville West quadrangle.

Dessau Fountains within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Dessau Fountains between 2005 and 2016, burning about 1,159 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Smoking20
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3300 BLOCK SH 130
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 130 AT FM 971

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dessau Fountains: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Mc Neil Plant & QuarryCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Travis 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
Dessau1.2 miles17
Idyle Hour Acres1.4 miles17
Coxville1.8 miles17
Pflugerville2.3 miles17
Kings Village2.4 miles17
Three Points2.4 miles17
Wells Branch2.5 miles17
Walnut Forest2.6 miles17

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 Q122597179The 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 2361068. 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.