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Fort Gates, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gatesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Turnover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gatesville East quadrangle.

Fort Gates within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

242 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Fort Gates between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,919 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Equipment and vehicle use30
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBERRY FIRE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 S HIGHWAY 36 BYPASS
7 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIM FIRE
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL FARM FIRE
6 September 2011Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARTON LANE FIRE
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2950 FM 1829
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1829 & FM 107
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBERRY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell 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
South Mountain2.5 miles16
Gatesville3.1 miles16
Mound5.0 miles16
Pecan Grove (historical)6.0 miles16
Leon Junction7.3 miles17
Flat7.5 miles16
Ames9.2 miles12
Lime City9.6 miles16

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 Q49350347The 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 1385178. 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.