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Idyle Hour Acres, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78728. The Survey maps it on the Pflugerville West quadrangle.

Idyle Hour Acres within Travis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

105 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Idyle Hour Acres between 2005 and 2016, burning about 932 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined61
Smoking23
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3300 BLOCK SH 130
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 130 AT FM 971

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Idyle Hour Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium. 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
Mc Neil Plant & QuarryCalciumProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Travis 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
Kings Village1.0 miles17
Wells Branch1.4 miles17
Dessau Fountains1.4 miles17
Waters Park1.7 miles17
Coxville1.7 miles17
Three Points1.9 miles17
Merrelltown2.2 miles17
Dessau2.5 miles17

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 Q122563810The 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 1359885. 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.