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High Valley, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Saba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76877. It lies near Whey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bend quadrangle.

High Valley within San Saba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of High Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,237 acres in total. None 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM. 580 BEND
28 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use617 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALLIS CREEK FIRE
20 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 580
19 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2008Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2008Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Saba 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
Bend1.7 miles16
Chappel2.6 miles16
Rough Creek Crossing3.3 miles16
Hicks Crossing6.0 miles16
Cherokee11.4 miles17
San Saba12.4 miles16
Harkeyville15.9 miles13
McMillan17.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379929. 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.