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Fort Chadbourne, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bronte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76933. The Survey maps it on the Blackwell quadrangle.

Fort Chadbourne within Coke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fort Chadbourne between 2006 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
22 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 COALSON
21 September 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBYRD RANCH
1 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE DAM ROAD
12 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRONTE ASS FIRE
22 July 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEAT CIRCLE
19 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON FARM
18 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWGAT WELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coke 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
Bronte7.8 miles15
Shawville10.4 miles15
Sanco12.4 miles9
Robert Lee12.8 miles14
Tennyson17.9 miles15
Edith18.3 miles8
Silver21.4 miles10
Pecan Mott22.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378311. 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.