BlockHeckville, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Idalou census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79329. The Survey maps it on the Heckville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Heckville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Heckville between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,542 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2008 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 28 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 19 March 2011 | Natural | 800 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/TREE FIRE |
| 11 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heckville in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Lightning | Heckville | $45,000 | A lightning strike started a barn fire. The barn, as well as a boat and a pickup truck within the barn, were heavily damaged. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heckville | - | A KAMC weather station near Idalou measured a 73 mph wind gust. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Heckville | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379917. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.