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Liberty, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gause-Milano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76520. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle.

Liberty within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

24 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2006 and 2018, burning about 236 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
7 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2095
25 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEN STONE
7 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE
7 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE #2
5 March 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALL
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKEN STONE FIRE
27 March 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTBROOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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
Hanover2.5 miles7
Hoyte3.4 miles8
Milano4.6 miles8
Marlow6.2 miles8
Gause7.0 miles7
Minerva7.3 miles8
Maysfield8.3 miles7
Cameron8.4 miles8

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 Q122929281The 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 1380080. 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.