Detmold, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Thorndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76577. The Survey maps it on the San Gabriel quadrangle.

Detmold within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS San Gabriel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Detmold between 2006 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. 2 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 burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Smoking	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PASTURE FIRE W HWY 79
25 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE N FM 908
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COTTON BALE ON FIRE
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
13 September 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Thorndale	2.6 miles	14
San Gabriel	3.2 miles	14
Liberty Hill	4.1 miles	14
Salty	5.8 miles	14
Handy	6.7 miles	15
Conoley	6.7 miles	14
Marjorie	7.0 miles	15
Sharp	7.6 miles	17

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 Detmold	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122929335	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 1379658. 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.