Highbank, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reagan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76680. It stands on Bee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Reagan quadrangle. It stands 321 feet above sea level.

Highbank within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Reagan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Highbank between 2005 and 2018, burning about 582 acres in total. 1 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEELE RD. FIRE
10 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-120
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2012-121
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-095
6 August 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-108
31 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RETURN TO RAILROAD FIRES
28 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RICHARDSON STUP FIRE
15 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDERVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coymack	0.9 miles	7
Beacon	1.5 miles	7
Eloise	3.5 miles	7
Reagan	4.3 miles	7
Cedar Springs	4.6 miles	7
Pleasant Grove	4.6 miles	7
Wilderville	5.2 miles	7
Sunrise	7.4 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Highbank	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5757829	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1359200. 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.