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Greenshores, Texas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78746. It stands on Hog Pen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austin West quadrangle.

Greenshores within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

47 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Greenshores between 2006 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVILLAGE WEST
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTALLION
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMMONS FORD ROAD
7 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBEE CAVE
27 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBASIN LEDGE FIRE
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIGHTMAN
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service85991

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis 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
River Hills1.7 miles25
West Lake Hills3.0 miles25
Lost Creek3.4 miles25
Steiner Ranch4.4 miles24
Rollingwood4.6 miles25
Barton Creek4.7 miles25
Four Points4.8 miles23
Abercrombie4.9 miles19

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 Q122566279The 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 1336977. 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.