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Millwood, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Nevada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75189. It stands on Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockwall quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Millwood within Collin 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.

Fires near this place

282 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 2005 and 2018, burning about 926 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
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 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9641 COUNTY ROAD 1088 - 12076362
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLIDAY
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 & FM 6 - 11075970
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 6 / N STATE HIGHWAY 78 - 14099438
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-904
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9597 COUNTY ROAD 1088

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Lavon2.3 miles11
Nevada4.0 miles9
Deep Water Point Estates4.6 miles11
Little Ridge5.0 miles11
Lavon Lake Lodges5.3 miles12
Copeville5.8 miles11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres6.3 miles11
Beverly Hill6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on MillwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076540The 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 1378686. 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.