BlockFoster, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Brownfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79316. The Survey maps it on the Foster quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Foster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Foster between 2006 and 2011, burning about 308 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 2 July 2011 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2 SOUTH ON FM 403 |
| 9 May 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2 SOUTH ON 137 |
| 20 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3 SOUTH ON 62/385 |
| 18 April 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRAIN TRACKS #1 |
| 18 April 2011 | Smoking | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2 SOUTH HWY 62/385 |
| 13 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUKER FARM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Hail | Foster | - | A member of the public reported golf ball size hail southwest of Brownfield. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Foster | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Foster | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378316. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.