BlockFriendship, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76530. It stands on Sore Finger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Granger Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Granger Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 2006 and 2019, burning about 143 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID THRALL |
| 22 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALLIGATOR RD FIRE |
| 1 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 7 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 423 |
| 24 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 423 FIRE |
| 14 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVILLA FIRE |
| 24 June 2012 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 1379804. 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.