BlockKubala Store, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yorktown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77954. The Survey maps it on the Blackwell Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Blackwell Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Kubala Store between 2005 and 2020, burning about 220 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD YORKTOWN RD GRASS CALLED OUT 5 SEPARATE TIMES |
| 8 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PETE DLUGOSCH PLACE |
| 5 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARY STEHLING |
| 31 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTOFF GRASS FIRE |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARGMANN RESIDENCE CRESTVIEW |
| 14 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VFW POST 836 |
| 13 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLARE STACK FIRE |
| 28 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARLTON BOLTING |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Wikidata item Q122549901 | 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 1380043. 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.