BlockMinters Chapel, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Tarrant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75261. The Survey maps it on the Grapevine quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1931 USGS Grapevine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Grapevine quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Grapevine quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Minters Chapel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 3484 |
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 360 |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 360 |
| 28 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 360 |
| 27 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 360 |
| 10 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE HWY 360 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY114 EB |
| 1 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 360 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122567864 | 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 1341727. 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.