Jones Prairie, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. It stands on Jones Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maysfield quadrangle.

Jones Prairie within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Maysfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Jones Prairie between 2009 and 2020, burning about 331 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
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 267 & CR 270
15 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 258
15 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COWARD FIRE
13 July 2009	Smoking	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON FIRE
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER 2
13 June 2009	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SKINNER
6 May 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 259
30 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROZNER HAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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
Crossroads	2.3 miles	7
Maysfield	4.6 miles	7
New Clarkson	4.8 miles	7
Clarkson	5.3 miles	7
Belmena	5.4 miles	7
Baileyville	6.2 miles	7
Briary	6.4 miles	7
Branchville	6.6 miles	7

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 Jones Prairie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122416733	The 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 1380011. 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.