Flugrath, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blanco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78606. It stands on Crabapple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crabapple Creek quadrangle.

Flugrath within Blanco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1894 USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Crabapple Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Flugrath between 2005 and 2015, burning about 687 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
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
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
29 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRAINER WEST
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HEADWATERS
2 August 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11355 1623 S
2 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	14 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RANCH ROAD 1623
18 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLANCO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Blanco

Every fire recorded in Blanco 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
Blanco	5.2 miles	13
Twin Sisters	9.2 miles	13
Hye	10.0 miles	13
Rocky Creek	10.4 miles	12
Payton	11.4 miles	15
Westbrook (historical)	11.4 miles	12
Johnson City	13.3 miles	15
Post Oak	13.9 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Flugrath	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113648964	The 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 2034983. 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.