Graham, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Post West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79356. The Survey maps it on the Post West quadrangle.

Graham within Garza County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Post West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Graham between 2005 and 2018, burning about 774 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 April 2008	Natural	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONNOR RANCH
10 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 March 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 December 2005	Natural	160 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 January 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garza 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
Close City	4.3 miles	7
Post	5.6 miles	7
Pleasant Valley	8.5 miles	7
Augustus	9.1 miles	7
Buenos	10.3 miles	7
Hackberry	10.5 miles	7
Southland	15.2 miles	7
Justiceburg	16.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358244. 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.