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Fields Store, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Prairie View-Waller census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Waller NW quadrangle.

Fields Store within Waller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

65 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Fields Store between 1996 and 2018, burning about 294 acres in total. None 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
21 September 2000Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 421
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEAVY SMOKE IN AREA
7 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 131

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller 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
Rolling Hills3.7 miles8
Prairie View3.9 miles15
Howth6.0 miles8
Waller6.3 miles15
Cedar Creek6.5 miles8
Hegar7.1 miles16
Hempstead7.3 miles10
Pine Island7.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034785. 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.