KC Estates, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bastrop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78602. The Survey maps it on the Smithville NW quadrangle.

KC Estates within Bastrop County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Smithville NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

506 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 506 fires within 5 miles of KC Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,466 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 19 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	329
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Natural	22
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1513 FAYETTE ST
7 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK HILL CEMETERY RD
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1000 95 HWY N
5 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.9 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TACO TRUCK
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENTRAL TX - 37

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bastrop 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
Circle D Estates	0.9 miles	17
Pine Hills	0.9 miles	16
Camp Swift	4.0 miles	16
Phelan	4.5 miles	16
Bastrop	4.7 miles	17
Swiftex	5.5 miles	16
Alum Creek	5.7 miles	17
Hills Prairie	7.2 miles	17

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 Q122550639

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 2413633. 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.