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Maryetta, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jacksboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76458. It stands on Hall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cundiff quadrangle.

Maryetta within Jack County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Maryetta between 2006 and 2018, burning about 16,989 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service59
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1810 AND 59 FIRE
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHART FIRE
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGATE
13 August 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNASH FIRE
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHICKS RANCH
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 59 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack 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
Cundiff4.3 miles8
Jacksboro7.1 miles9
Truce8.3 miles7
Wizard Wells8.8 miles8
Vineyard10.7 miles8
Postoak11.5 miles8
Lynn Creek13.7 miles8
Oakland14.1 miles9

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 MaryettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122545114The 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 1380150. 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.