Joppa, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Briggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78605. It stands on Pool Branch. The Survey maps it on the Joppa quadrangle.

Joppa within Burnet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1887 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Burnet quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Joppa quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

67 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Joppa between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,444 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 2011	Natural	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORTH FORK FIRE
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	12-0000299
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 243 & CR 274
21 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnet 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
Shady Grove	2.6 miles	14
Mahomet	5.3 miles	13
Bertram	5.8 miles	17
Briggs	7.2 miles	13
Watson	7.6 miles	14
Sunnylane	9.0 miles	14
Oatmeal	9.5 miles	17
Lake Victor	10.3 miles	14

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 Joppa	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6276204	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 1380012. 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.