Jacobs, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Paducah North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79248. The Survey maps it on the Moons Camp quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jacobs within Cottle 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Moons Camp quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Childress quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Jacobs (historical) between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	1

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
9 September 2009	Natural	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8 MILES EAST HWY 70 - MOON CAMP
6 September 2008	Debris and open burning	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	320 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONTROL BURN ASSIST
2 September 2010	Natural	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRIANGLE RANCH FIRE
25 July 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROADSIDE FIRE - EAST HWY 70
17 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 July 2016	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOLLOWAY FIRE N.62-83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cottle 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ogden	4.8 miles	8
Swearingen	5.9 miles	7
Dunlap	6.1 miles	8
Paducah	6.6 miles	8
Baker	10.0 miles	8
Valley View	10.7 miles	8
Hackberry	10.8 miles	8
Ginsite	12.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377173. 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.