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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.

Matthews Place within Brewster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2002

Regional 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
Natural4

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 June 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSETOP FIRE
7 May 2011Natural83,995 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHWARTZ FIRE
27 May 2008Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEDAR MOUNTAIN
29 March 2002Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH PLAINS - 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brewster 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
Bennett Place (historical)2.4 miles11
McFarland Place3.2 miles11
Kriebaum Place3.7 miles11
Causey Place4.4 miles11
Ansley Place6.1 miles12
Haymond6.2 miles11
Shoemaker Place6.3 miles12
Walker Place6.9 miles12

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.