BlockKinkler, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hallettsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77964. It stands on Cottonwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moravia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Kinkler between 2005 and 2011, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JAMES FREY |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 136A |
| 23 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALLACE GF |
| 6 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinkler in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Hail | New Kinkler | $5,000 | The Sheriff's Department reported golf ball-sized hail at New Kinkler at 1915 CST, with nickle- to quarter-sized hail in Halletsville at 1941 CST. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Kinkler | - | A thunderstorm produced hail larger than quarters at a farm along Hwy 77 north of Hallettsville. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Kinkler | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail north of Hallettsville. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Kinkler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28912746 | 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 1378526. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.