Furguson, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plainview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79072. The Survey maps it on the Plainview quadrangle.

Furguson within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Furguson in 2006, burning about 838 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
9 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 February 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 February 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 January 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Snyder	1.7 miles	7
Six Point	3.7 miles	7
Plainview	4.5 miles	7
Wasson	6.4 miles	8
Seth Ward	6.5 miles	7
Hale Center	6.7 miles	7
Hale City (historical)	7.0 miles	7
Lider	7.4 miles	7

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 Q122562492

The 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 1379815. 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.