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Herndon, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79561. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Peak quadrangle.

Herndon within Nolan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

81 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Herndon between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,696 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,808 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLUE ALLEGHENY FIRE
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOYD FIRE
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRENT MESA FIRE 2
20 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAMNER
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLATEU
16 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRENT MEZA FIRE
12 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTER FIRE
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2591/2 MM GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan 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
Tesco1.8 miles14
Grimes2.4 miles14
Toland4.0 miles14
Sweetwater10.2 miles13
Orient10.3 miles12
Avenger Village12.9 miles13
Shaufler13.1 miles13
Nolan14.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378444. 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.