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Fowlkes, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Iowa Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76367. The Survey maps it on the Fowlkes quadrangle.

Fowlkes within Wichita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

88 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Fowlkes between 2005 and 2020, burning about 13,386 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
17 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service46
8 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution70 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2384/BYRD RD
8 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZY J ROAD 3
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMIDWAY CHURCH
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service41
17 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020030
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use174 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZY J #2
1 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2019014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wichita 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
Electra5.1 miles12
Haynesville8.0 miles12
Valley View9.1 miles7
Iowa Park9.3 miles11
Kadane Corner9.4 miles7
Kamay9.5 miles7
Clara9.9 miles12
Pleasant Valley13.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379798. 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.