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Earls, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76087. It stands on Brogden Branch. The Survey maps it on the Annetta quadrangle.

Earls within Parker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

112 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Earls between 2005 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service982 JOHNSON BEND
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARMONY ROAD FIRE
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service396 MM E I 20
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 DORRIS COURT
6 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceG&L
24 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACKETT CT
21 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service699 RAY LANE
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service180 ANNETTA ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Center Point0.8 miles17
Punkin Center1.6 miles16
Hudson Oaks2.4 miles16
Wampler2.9 miles16
Weatherford3.3 miles17
Annetta North3.7 miles17
Harmony4.0 miles18
Annetta4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1384273. 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.