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Hicks, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78947. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hicks quadrangle.

Hicks within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

72 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Hicks between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,156 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 320
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service908
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 305
18 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON 908
8 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 303

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hicks: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Colvin Sandstone DepositTitaniumUnknown
Colvin Sandstone DepositZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Tanglewood3.0 miles9
Pleasant Grove (historical)4.8 miles9
Lexington8.5 miles15
Leo12.0 miles9
Doak Springs12.5 miles9
Adina12.7 miles15
Old Dime Box13.1 miles9
Blue13.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379926. 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.