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Jinks Branch, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Park-Liberty Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78642. It stands on Jinks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Liberty Hill quadrangle.

Jinks Branch within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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

161 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Jinks Branch between 2000 and 2020, burning about 632 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined67
Debris and open burning58
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service22300 RONALD W REAGAN BLVD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4850 RR 1869
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 50
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9700 W SH 29
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9750 W. SH 29
13 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL DR & HORSESHOE DR
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service104 VIA DE SIENNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jinks Branch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Armadillo QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer

Every working recorded in Williamson 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
Seward Junction1.6 miles13
Liberty Hill2.7 miles13
Santa Rita Ranch3.4 miles15
Leander4.4 miles17
Hunt Crossing5.7 miles15
Walkerton7.6 miles17
Russell Crossing7.9 miles15
White Stone8.5 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122556449The 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 1380004. 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.