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Mattson, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Haskell census division. The Survey maps it on the Mattson quadrangle.

Mattson within Haskell 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

23 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Mattson between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1,196 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0906A
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-0922A
1 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELDING FIRE
24 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 266 FIRE
13 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 227 FIRE
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 226 & 227
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 266

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haskell 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
Josselet5.8 miles7
Weinert6.3 miles7
Irby6.4 miles8
Haskell9.7 miles7
Scott Crossing12.4 miles8
Pinkerton13.4 miles8
Paint Creek13.6 miles7
Rochester14.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380155. 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.