Ebony, Texas

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.

• 1889 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1928 USGS Zephyr quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Zephyr quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Indian Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Comanche quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Indian Creek quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ebony between 2007 and 2020, burning about 4,240 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Buffalo
• Duke Crossing
• Regency
• Ridge

Every fire recorded in Mills County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379696. 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.