Griffith, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1970. It stands in the Morton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79346. The Survey maps it on the Lingo quadrangle.

Griffith within Cochran County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lingo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Griffith between 1994 and 2016, burning about 2,364 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
8 August 2005	Natural	11 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ASHBROOK
14 August 2009	Natural	53 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHICKEN FOOT
1 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ELICK
9 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.1 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PICKUP
9 June 2010	Natural	150 acres	Capitan District	NM 114
29 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	POOL
21 June 2010	Natural	4.4 acres	Capitan District	POOL
17 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COX

Every fire recorded in Cochran 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
Neely Ward	6.2 miles	7
Star Route (historical)	8.2 miles	7
Bledsoe	9.6 miles	5
Famuliner	9.8 miles	7
Morton	14.0 miles	7
Lehman	15.0 miles	7
Whiteface	24.1 miles	7
Girlstown USA	28.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379863. 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.