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Elm Grove, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76574. It stands on Willis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granger Lake quadrangle.

Elm Grove within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 2006 and 2019, burning about 228 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2015Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL AND GRANGER
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL
1 August 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
9 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use19 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1036 FIRE
7 July 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 423
24 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 423 FIRE
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE CR 417

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Friendship2.1 miles14
Laneport2.2 miles14
Hoxie2.5 miles14
Hare2.7 miles14
Sandoval3.5 miles14
Wuthrich Hill4.6 miles14
Waterloo4.8 miles15
Thrall6.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379716. 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.