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Flatrock Ford, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kyle-Buda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78610. It lies near Barton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mountain City quadrangle.

Flatrock Ford within Hays County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

33 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Flatrock Ford between 2005 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKYLE CROSSING
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 35
6 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKOHLERS CROSSING
16 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1626
14 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1626
5 June 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000733

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hays County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Flatrock Ford: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension. 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
Buda QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, DimensionProducerLimestone
Texas Cement Quarry & PlantClay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Howe Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
South Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Hays 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
Mountain City2.3 miles18
Buda2.9 miles18
Hays3.7 miles18
Hays City5.4 miles18
Kyle5.7 miles16
Goforth6.2 miles18
Driftwood8.3 miles15
Bear Creek8.7 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122540092The 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 1378301. 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.