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Four Mile Prairie, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75147. It stands on Knudson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Prairieville quadrangle.

Four Mile Prairie within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

46 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Four Mile Prairie between 1996 and 2019, burning about 937 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-378
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR114 EGYPT
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-321
7 August 2013Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-142
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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
Wise2.6 miles10
Whitton4.0 miles13
Watkins4.3 miles10
Roddy5.1 miles11
Phalba6.6 miles13
Cana6.7 miles10
Jackson7.5 miles13
Odom7.8 miles11

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 Q122541426The 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 2761940. 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.