Hale City, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hale Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79041. The Survey maps it on the Hale Center quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hale City within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hale Center quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hale City (historical) between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,674 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	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
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	129 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EDWIN DAVIS FARM
7 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 March 2011	Debris and open burning	152 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOMPSON FIRE
22 March 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	285 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10-0322-01
9 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 February 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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
Hale Center	2.5 miles	7
Six Point	3.8 miles	7
Mayfield	6.3 miles	7
Furguson	7.0 miles	7
Underwood	7.5 miles	10
Snyder	7.6 miles	7
Halfway	7.8 miles	7
Cotton Center	9.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034823. 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.