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Inwood, Texas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northeast Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75240. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Inwood within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

111 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Inwood between 2005 and 2017, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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/undetermined96
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3860 WALNUT HILL
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPEL CREEK
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPEL
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOREST
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTFORD
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEMERALD
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAPEL CREEK
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
Addison2.2 miles24
Meaders3.0 miles24
Bouchard3.7 miles24
Gifford3.7 miles24
Farmers Branch4.0 miles27
Carrollton4.0 miles27
Richardson5.0 miles20
Oldham5.1 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378482. 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.