Millett, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Cotulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78014. The Survey maps it on the Millett quadrangle.

Millett within La Salle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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.

1942 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Millett quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2002 USGS Dilley quadrangle1:50000

Fires near this place

94 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Millett between 2005 and 2019, burning about 359 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 469 W @ DANIELS RD
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	82 NORTHBOUND
2 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	82 NORTHBOUND
19 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GREY AVE GARDENDALE
18 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MM77HI35
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 35 N @ VEGARA RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Gardendale

Every fire recorded in La Salle 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
Gardendale	4.6 miles	9
Woodward	7.3 miles	8
Cotulla	10.2 miles	10
Zamora Acres Colonia	10.2 miles	10
Los Angeles	13.3 miles	10
Dull	17.1 miles	9
Artesia Wells	21.3 miles	13
Fowlerton	22.1 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Millett	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38250549	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 1362918. 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.