Double Ford, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goldthwaite census division. It lies near Rye Valley. The Survey maps it on the San Saba Peak quadrangle.

Double Ford within Mills County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 San Saba quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1925 USGS San Saba 1-d quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Goldthwaite quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1980 USGS San Saba Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Double Ford between 2006 and 2020, burning about 395 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGHWAY 16 NORTH
2 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 128
16 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAMBERT
3 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 144
8 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N 190
16 May 2006	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 April 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROBERT STEWART
6 February 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BONNIE HARKEY FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Big Valley

Every fire recorded in Mills 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
Scallorn	7.1 miles	12
Antelope Gap (historical)	7.2 miles	12
Castor	7.2 miles	15
Big Valley	7.5 miles	16
Pleasant Grove	10.7 miles	12
Ratler	11.1 miles	15
Goldthwaite	11.2 miles	14
Durenville	14.2 miles	14

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 Q122559980

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 1379675. 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.