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Kings Village, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78727. The Survey maps it on the Pflugerville West quadrangle.

Kings Village within Travis 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Kings Village between 2005 and 2016, burning about 933 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined60
Smoking22
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3300 BLOCK SH 130
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 130 AT FM 971

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Travis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kings Village: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Limestone, General, Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dedear QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dedear QuarryCalciumProducer
Mc Neil Plant & QuarryCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Travis 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
Wells Branch0.9 miles17
Idyle Hour Acres1.0 miles17
Merrelltown1.3 miles17
Waters Park1.5 miles17
Three Points1.8 miles17
McNeil2.0 miles17
Dessau Fountains2.4 miles17
Coxville2.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1360676. 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.