Grimes, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79561. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Peak quadrangle.

Grimes within Nolan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Merkel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Chalk Peak quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

96 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Grimes between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,134 acres in total. 9 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	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
7 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,808 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLUE ALLEGHENY FIRE
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	262 CENTER MEDIAN
21 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BOYD FIRE
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRENT MESA FIRE 2
20 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAMNER
16 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	70 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRENT MEZA FIRE
16 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	262 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan 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
Toland	1.7 miles	14
Herndon	2.4 miles	14
Tesco	4.2 miles	14
Sweetwater	12.1 miles	13
Orient	12.5 miles	12
Nolan	13.2 miles	14
Shaufler	14.3 miles	13
Avenger Village	14.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378389. 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.