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Liberty, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lubbock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79403. The Survey maps it on the New Deal quadrangle.

Liberty within Lubbock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

27 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2002 and 2017, burning about 400 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7802 N. CEDAR AVENUE
7 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTAL AID GRASS FIRE
2 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH PLAINS - 2
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7802 N. CEDAR AVENUE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock 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
Kitalou3.4 miles8
New Deal4.7 miles10
Idalou4.8 miles8
Heckville6.8 miles7
Canyon7.2 miles8
Becton8.9 miles7
Roosevelt9.2 miles8
Lubbock9.3 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705259The 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 1380082. 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.