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Mayer, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79107. The Survey maps it on the Mayer quadrangle. It stands 3,629 feet above sea level.

Mayer within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

184 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Mayer between 2006 and 2020, burning about 28,445 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 were 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/undetermined117
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13505
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13519
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOWENS CORNING
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13121
3 August 2018Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALABATES
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-12214
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGERE
12 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-11649

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter 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
Folsom2.5 miles8
Dumas Junction4.8 miles8
Pullman4.8 miles8
Pleasant Valley4.9 miles11
Juilliard5.4 miles11
Amarillo5.7 miles8
Saint Francis6.1 miles8
Gluck8.2 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q21850847The 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 1380157. 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.