Iolanthe, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sterling City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76951. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Draw quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Iolanthe within Sterling County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Buffalo Draw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Iolanthe (historical) between 2006 and 2008, burning about 2,641 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 July 2006	Natural	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 June 2008	Natural	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,800 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 June 2006	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 June 2006	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sterling City

Every fire recorded in Sterling 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	Place	Distance	Sheets
	Sterling City	14.8 miles	7
	Broome	22.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034904. 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.