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Kirtley, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Grange West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78957. It stands on Bartons Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle.

Kirtley within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Kirtley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 102
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINCHESTER ASSIST SB
2 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRING BRANCH
17 September 1996Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1992Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kirtley: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirtley in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023HailKirtley-A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail in Kirtley. We received a picture of the hail on Facebook.
March 2018HailKirtley-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail on Hwy 95 south of Smithville.
March 2014HailKirtley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
West Point3.6 miles12
Winchester5.3 miles16
Prairie Valley5.5 miles11
Stellar5.8 miles11
Fords Prairie5.9 miles11
Lena6.6 miles12
Plum7.3 miles11
Marly7.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1360703. 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.

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.