Matthews Place, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Marathon census division. It stands on Frog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lightning Hills quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1920 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lightning Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Matthews Place between 2002 and 2011, burning about 84,202 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 June 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOUSETOP FIRE |
| 7 May 2011 | Natural | 83,995 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHWARTZ FIRE |
| 27 May 2008 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR MOUNTAIN |
| 29 March 2002 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGH PLAINS - 1 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Place (historical) | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| McFarland Place | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Kriebaum Place | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Causey Place | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Ansley Place | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Haymond | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Shoemaker Place | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Walker Place | 6.9 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378650. 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.






