Fivemile, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Lamesa South quadrangle.

Fivemile within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lamesa South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fivemile between 2006 and 2013, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
6 August 2013	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAWRENCE FIRE
16 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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
Tenmile	2.7 miles	8
Sparenberg	4.2 miles	8
Klondike	6.1 miles	8
Los Ybanez	6.2 miles	8
Midway	6.7 miles	8
Friendship	7.5 miles	6
Lamesa	8.0 miles	8
Key	8.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378298. 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.