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Four Corner Windmill, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79781. The Survey maps it on the Bachelor Hill quadrangle.

Four Corner Windmill within Crockett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Four Corner Windmill between 2008 and 2019, burning about 100,553 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
19 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERNER FIRE
15 August 2015Natural433 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOX RANCH
12 August 2015Natural693 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUTTON RANCH
1 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution754 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK RANCH
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLMESLY FIRE
23 May 2008Debris and open burning125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH RANCH
9 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELL BLACK TOP
30 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined98,168 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUCKABEE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crockett 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
Fort Lancaster7.5 miles7
Ozona20.1 miles7
Crockett Heights24.4 miles7
Midway28.9 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379794. 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.