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Gaylord, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Booker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79005. The Survey maps it on the Gaylord quadrangle.

Gaylord within Lipscomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Gaylord between 2006 and 2020, burning about 504 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
28 August 2011Natural75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 6 CR H
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAMIREZ
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 9
23 July 2011Natural160 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWIENETT
22 July 2017Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILIPS
16 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEXCEL153W
9 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4 FIRE
4 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD DARROUZETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lipscomb 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
Booker5.2 miles6
Darrouzett6.1 miles6
Twin Grove7.8 miles6
Sherlock11.5 miles6
Follett15.9 miles6
Barton Corners16.6 miles6
Lipscomb17.0 miles6
Magoun22.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379828. 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.