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Hilburn, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79043. The Survey maps it on the Hilburn quadrangle. It stands 3,642 feet above sea level.

Hilburn within Castro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hilburn between 2006 and 2013, burning about 128 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3RD & AVE C
6 August 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6-AUG
29 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDATE ST. & FM 145
27 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2 MI. S. FM 168
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5-JUL
20 July 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVANDERHAM
12 July 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVANDERHAM
10 June 2012Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-JUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Castro 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
Hart1.9 miles8
Mulkey9.5 miles9
Roy9.5 miles9
Sunnyside11.4 miles8
Nazareth12.3 miles8
Dimmitt17.4 miles9
Flagg17.4 miles9
Big Square20.1 miles9

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 HilburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892323The 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 1379931. 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.