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Gruhlkey, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adrian census division. The Survey maps it on the Adrian quadrangle.

Gruhlkey within Oldham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

49 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Gruhlkey between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,430 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18MM FIRE
7 August 2016Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCURY RANCH LONETREE PASTURE
4 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKLAKE FIRE
3 August 2019Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14MM FIRE
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINTERSTATE FIRE
26 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service214 FIRE
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service21MM FIRE
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham 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
Adrian4.2 miles6
Wimberly Place6.1 miles6
Boise7.1 miles6
Landergin9.9 miles6
Vega16.8 miles6
Partwood Crossing17.9 miles6
Strip Crossing17.9 miles6
Old Farm Crossing19.3 miles6

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 Q122597293The 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 1379868. 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.