BlockLeaday, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Talpa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76888. It stands on Grape Creek. The Survey maps it on the O.H. Ivie Reservoir quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1892 USGS Ballinger quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1925 USGS Ballinger 4-c quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS Voss quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Leaday quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Leaday (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | J. JOHNSON WELDING WILDFIRE |
| 26 July 2010 | Natural | 750 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO RD 374 @IVIE |
| 2 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KENNEDY PARK WELDING FIRE |
| 5 March 2011 | Smoking | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAKE O.H. IVIE |
| 9 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAKESIDE ON COLORADO |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380069. 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.