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Impact, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Abilene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79603. The Survey maps it on the Abilene East quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.

Impact within Taylor County

Population over time

2 figures

Impact fell from 35 to 22 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201035
202022-13 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

421 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 421 fires within 5 miles of Impact between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,469 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined195
Debris and open burning115
Equipment and vehicle use38
Power generation/transmission/distribution29
Smoking19
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceYEOMANS
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN JOSE
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAILEY
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1817 CLINTON
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERLAND
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDON JUAN
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAPITOL
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONGRESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Impact: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Clay. 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
Abilene Brick Co PitClayProducer
Kendall-1CopperOccurrence1916
Plant No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor 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
Abilene3.6 miles17
Hamby6.2 miles15
Tye7.3 miles18
Elmdale7.4 miles17
Wylie8.9 miles15
Caps10.3 miles15
Potosi12.7 miles14
View13.1 miles15

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 ImpactAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977252The 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 1388540. 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.