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Ike, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75165. The Survey maps it on the Waxahachie quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Ike within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Ike between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,347 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIKE ROAD FIRE
5 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CHURCH RD
2 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service326 IKE RD
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1900 FM 879
8 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-149
6 July 2013Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-120
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRING RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ike in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010HailIke-One inch sized hail was reported at the intersection of FM 878 and East Campus Road near Palmer.

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Boyce2.5 miles11
Waxahachie4.3 miles10
Rockett4.6 miles10
Reagor Springs5.2 miles9
Palmer5.8 miles11
Pecan Hill5.8 miles10
Sterrett5.8 miles10
Garrett6.7 miles11

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 IkeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4116341The 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 1378479. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.