Fairmont, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79255. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quitaque quadrangle.

Fairmont within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Quitaque quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fairmont between 2006 and 2020, burning about 7,295 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were 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	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ECHOLS
14 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	34 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
14 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 August 2016	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
21 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLIVER CLARK
7 June 2018	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID GRASS FIRE
31 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1065 AND CR 76
12 May 2010	Natural	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARIE CRUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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
Gray Mule	3.1 miles	7
Johnfarris	8.3 miles	7
Cedar Hill	10.8 miles	7
South Plains	13.4 miles	7
Sterley	18.1 miles	7
Lone Star	18.9 miles	7
Boothe	20.6 miles	7
Dougherty	21.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379746. 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.