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Kimball, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gruver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79081. The Survey maps it on the Kimball quadrangle.

Kimball within Hansford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Kimball between 2006 and 2016, burning about 1,561 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVINNAMAN
19 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVENNEMAN #2
2 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
11 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAN RALSTON 2
28 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1 MI N. D. RALSOTON FM 2387
17 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMATHEWS GREEN HOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hansford 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
Bernstein6.3 miles6
Gruver8.3 miles6
Hansford8.9 miles6
Spearman9.9 miles7
Hitchland12.0 miles6
McKibben14.4 miles6
Phillips Camp15.4 miles6
Morse21.2 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380029. 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.