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Hurnville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Henrietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76365. The Survey maps it on the Hurnville quadrangle.

Hurnville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

60 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hurnville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 21,284 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning7
Natural5
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
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceF.M. 1197 @ DOUTHETT RD. FIRE
4 September 2014Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZACHREY RD
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHAFFNER FIRE
20 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZACHERY RANCH FIRE
14 September 2016Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK RD FIRE OUT PTA
1 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEMENTS FIRE
9 August 2014Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVERLAND RD GRASS FIRE
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hurnville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Ship RanchCopperOccurrence1973

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Petrolia5.0 miles10
Byers7.6 miles10
Stanfield9.0 miles10
Walton9.4 miles8
Dean9.4 miles8
Henrietta9.9 miles8
Huggins10.0 miles8
Frame10.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379979. 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.