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Exell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dumas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79058. The Survey maps it on the Masterson quadrangle.

Exell within Moore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Exell between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,750 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2

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
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUTCHER546
29 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLake Meredith National Recreation AreaYANTIS
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH MASTERSON 648
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLUE KNOIGHT
31 July 1993Naturalunder an acreLake Meredith National Recreation AreaHAGY-2
31 July 1993Natural60 acresLake Meredith National Recreation AreaHAGY-1
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRFLATS
6 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moore 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 Exell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Helium. 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
U S Bureau of Mines OperationHeliumProducer

Every working recorded in Moore 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
Masterson0.8 miles9
Four Way4.2 miles9
Bautista6.7 miles6
Middlewell12.2 miles6
Stallwitz Lake12.6 miles6
Dumas16.2 miles6
Machovec21.6 miles6
Sheerin24.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1357138. 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.