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Ladd, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle.

Ladd within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ladd between 1996 and 2011, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 309
1 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
18 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
12 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH DUMP FIRE
21 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Stilson1.9 miles13
Dayton1.9 miles13
Martha2.8 miles13
Wadley3.4 miles13
Fullerton4.1 miles13
Gum Grove4.3 miles13
South Dayton4.5 miles11
Eastgate4.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1377131. 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.