Hannibal, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Morgan Mill-Bluff Dale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76401. It stands on Hannibal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huckabay quadrangle.

Hannibal within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1890 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1920 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Huckabay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

104 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Hannibal between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,830 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	46
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	X-RAY FIRE
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ORTEGA TREE CR 130
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 219 LOWE
31 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR 419
31 August 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2017	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR 117
30 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR 130

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath 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
Huckabay	2.8 miles	13
Sapoak	7.3 miles	12
Morgan Mill	9.0 miles	12
Lingleville	9.2 miles	13
Thurber	10.2 miles	16
Patillo	12.5 miles	21
Stephenville	12.7 miles	15
Knob Hill	12.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378411. 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.