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Erna, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Menard East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76854. It lies near Muskhog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Long Mountain quadrangle.

Erna within Menard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Erna between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,131 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMENARD CO/US377S/ERNA RD/M.MERRILL
20 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution266 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRI-COUNTY FIRE
5 July 2005Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12140 US377S/M.ALLEN
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-58
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined539 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNGRY HOLLOW FIRE
27 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS377/TRI-COUNTY/SPRINGHOLLOW/A.ECKERT
17 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Erna: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Erna Frac SandSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer

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
Saline4.1 miles7
Hext8.5 miles7
Twentymile Crossing11.2 miles13
Tenmile Crossing11.9 miles9
Fivemile Crossing16.3 miles9
Menard19.7 miles8
Fourmile Crossing22.5 miles8
Callan23.9 miles12

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 ErnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48968982The 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 1379732. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.