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Hartex, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76310. The Survey maps it on the Holliday quadrangle.

Hartex within Archer 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.

Fires near this place

164 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Hartex between 2005 and 2020, burning about 6,063 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9039 SEYMOUR HWY
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE RD FIRE
2 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service368 FIRE
1 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRITTON LANE FIRE
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service08/09/2020A
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWARREN PLANT ROAD FIRE
6 August 2014Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORD ROAD FIRE
4 August 2016Smoking100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHREE WAY ROAD FIRE 1ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hartex: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mount BarryCopperOccurrence1873

Every working recorded in Archer 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
Holliday1.0 miles8
Dads Corner5.2 miles9
Mankins6.9 miles7
Lakeside City7.0 miles10
Luke Wilson9.8 miles9
Black Flat12.1 miles9
Dundee13.1 miles9
Scotland15.6 miles8

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 Q122546712The 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 1379901. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.