BlockElevation, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gause-Milano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76556. It stands on Hammond Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milano quadrangle. 12 people lived here at the 2000 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Milano quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Milano quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
43 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Elevation between 2005 and 2018, burning about 244 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEYERS FIRE |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR312 PASTURE FIRE |
| 15 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 36 N !363 |
| 27 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROBERTSON GRASS FIRE CYRD312 |
| 23 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/ CR 308 |
| 18 July 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CYRD315/R&R TRACKS |
| 18 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOFFLO PRODUCTION, FLIA /GRASS FIRECYRD328 |
| 13 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REED/CYRD312 GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Elevation | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122546806 | 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 1379710. 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.