Meador Grove, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76557. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Springs quadrangle.

Meador Grove within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1924 USGS Temple 2-C quadrangle1:48000
1931 USGS Mc Gregor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Eagle Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

82 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Meador Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,734 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOTHER NEFF AREA FIRE CONT.
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSESHOE BEND FIRE
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HORSESHOE BEND FIRE
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RHUDY FIRE
3 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13057 IRON BRIDGE
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BILL AUGMIER
27 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BILL AUGNIER
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOODY LEON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stampede	2.8 miles	16
White Hall	4.8 miles	16
Owl Creek	4.9 miles	19
Bland	5.9 miles	19
Moffat	5.9 miles	16
Jubilee Springs	7.8 miles	16
Pendleton	8.5 miles	15
Union Hill	9.1 miles	19

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 Q122541487

The 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 1380170. 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.