Kokernot, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gonzales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77984. The Survey maps it on the Hamon quadrangle.

Kokernot within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Hamon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kokernot between 2003 and 2017, burning about 758 acres in total. 3 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FLORES FIRE
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COOK PLACE
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REGGIE OTHOLD
28 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JRAL FIRE
21 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FRANK JRAL
11 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ADKINS FIRE
19 July 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

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

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Kennard Pit	Bentonite	Producer	Sedimentary
Knorr Pit	Bentonite	Producer	Sedimentary
Southern Clay Pits and Plant	Bentonite	Producer

Every working recorded in Gonzales 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glaze City	2.7 miles	9
Dilworth	4.6 miles	11
Hamon	5.1 miles	9
Dreyer	5.2 miles	10
Little New York	7.8 miles	11
Nickel	8.2 miles	11
Comanche Crossing	9.0 miles	11
Gonzales	10.6 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122561167

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 1378534. 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.