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Heaton, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Lefors census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79065. The Survey maps it on the Hoover quadrangle.

Heaton within Gray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Heaton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,586 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2014103
3 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLH WEBB
2 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2006Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service292020
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use610 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIG
8 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013046
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gray 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
Hoover3.9 miles5
Lefors7.7 miles5
Mesilla Park7.7 miles5
Pampa8.1 miles5
Wesco8.3 miles5
Laketon9.3 miles5
Bowers City10.6 miles6
Kingsmill Camp12.9 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379915. 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.