Edwards, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Henrietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76365. The Survey maps it on the Dickworsham quadrangle.

Edwards within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Henrietta quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Dickworsham quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Edwards between 2000 and 2020, burning about 44,990 acres in total. 12 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	27
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2332/82
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	5TH STREET GRASS FIRE
14 September 2011	Smoking	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LONE STAR ROAD FIRE
10 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAR MUFFLER GRASS FIRE
8 August 2016	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2016079
8 August 2016	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARWOOD RANCH GRASS FIRE
31 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	82 HWY FIRE
31 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENRIETTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Huggins	2.2 miles	8
Walton	3.5 miles	8
Dickworsham	6.8 miles	8
Henrietta	8.7 miles	8
Stanfield	10.0 miles	10
Frame	10.1 miles	8
Hurnville	11.7 miles	8
Bellevue	13.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379703. 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.