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Ike, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78022. It stands on South Fork Salt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Three Rivers quadrangle.

Ike within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

48 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ike between 2006 and 2020, burning about 917 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/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning6
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceG.W GRASS FIRE
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGULLY
6 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE/ SOUTH OF THREE RIVERS
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2018102
22 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ike in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 lightning. 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
September 2009LightningIke$15,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Live Oak 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
George West4.5 miles12
Oakville4.9 miles11
Three Rivers5.0 miles11
Simmons6.8 miles12
River Creek Acres8.6 miles12
Mikeska9.2 miles12
Ray Point9.2 miles9
Karon10.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378478. 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.