Hoefer, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Eagle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77434. The Survey maps it on the Lissie quadrangle.

Hoefer within Colorado County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Wallis quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lissie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hoefer between 1992 and 2011, burning about 100 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 burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
17 September 1992	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	TTU1
1 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 March 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	HAY FIRE
14 February 1996	Debris and open burning	89 acres	Attwater Prarie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge	FOSTER WILDFIRE
9 October 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 October 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colorado 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
Chesterville	1.9 miles	10
Lafitte	4.3 miles	10
Eagle Lake	4.9 miles	10
Lakeside	5.2 miles	10
Rayner Junction	5.7 miles	10
Matthews	8.3 miles	9
Ramsey	9.1 miles	11
Boedecker Junction	10.5 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122541377

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 1378461. 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.