Kimball, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Kimball Academy, Route 174, Brazos River Vicinity, Kimballfederal building survey, 6 photographs

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.

• 1891 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1924 USGS Cleburne 3-C quadrangle1:48000
• 1927 USGS Blum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Lakeside Village quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Kimball (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,738 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kopperl
• Lakeside Village
• Morgan

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kimball (historical): 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bosque County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034633. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.