BlockJunction Windmill, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ingram census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76849. The Survey maps it on the Allen Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Allen Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Junction Windmill between 2008 and 2010, burning about 1,051 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 800 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | YOLO |
| 14 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TXDOT PILE |
| 11 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | 18.2 miles | 11 | |
| Stowers Corner Windmill | 19.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hunt | 23.6 miles | 13 | |
| Waltonia | 25.7 miles | 13 | |
| Ingram | 27.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Wesley | 31.7 miles | 13 | |
| Kerrville | 33.4 miles | 13 | |
| Legion | 35.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122594935 | 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 1378508. 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.