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Melody Hills, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76137. The Survey maps it on the Haltom City quadrangle.

Melody Hills within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

289 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Melody Hills between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,327 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined251
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAKHURST SCENIC
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDY RYON
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceAIRPORT FREEWAY
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLD SPRINGS
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNE 23RD
6 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHERMAN
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRETTA
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH WEST LOOP 820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Melody Hills: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
General Portland Inc Ft Worth PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
General Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant 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
Blue Mound2.4 miles18
Haltom City3.0 miles18
Watauga3.5 miles18
Saginaw3.5 miles18
North Richland Hills4.3 miles20
Richland Hills4.4 miles20
Sansom Park5.2 miles17
Smithfield5.7 miles20

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 Q122543314The 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 1341351. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.