Grisham Pumping Station, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Van Horn Rural census division. The Survey maps it on the Dellahunt Draw East quadrangle.

Grisham Pumping Station within Culberson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1928 USGS Kent quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Dellahunt Draw East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grisham Pumping Station in 2011, burning about 300 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 April 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TAYLOR/HOLEBECK RANCH

Every fire recorded in Culberson 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
Old Christian Place	7.6 miles	6
Ort	13.6 miles	8
Levinson	24.7 miles	9
Kent	26.4 miles	8
Pezuna del Caballo	27.7 miles	7
Boracho	27.7 miles	8
State Line	41.7 miles	6
Nickel Creek Station	43.6 miles	6

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 Q122572035

The 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 1358457. 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.