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Key Allegro, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78382. It stands on Key Allegro. The Survey maps it on the Rockport quadrangle.

Key Allegro within Aransas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

177 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Key Allegro between 2006 and 2020, burning about 952 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined96
Debris and open burning43
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Natural3

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFULTON WISHERT BRUSH FIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3300 BYPASS 35
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKPORT BRUSHFIRE ASSIST
3 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2101 MRYTLE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service418 RATTLESNAKE POINT RD
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service414 OLD SALT LAKE RD
13 September 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service510 RATTLESNAKE POINT RD
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2200 FM 1781

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aransas 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
Fulton1.7 miles11
Rockport1.9 miles11
Shell Ridge3.4 miles15
Copano Village3.7 miles11
Palm Harbor5.9 miles15
Estes6.5 miles15
Lamar7.0 miles9
City-by-the Sea7.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034204. 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.