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Mitchell, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76437. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle.

Mitchell within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

42 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,560 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2014Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTARR FIRE
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 168
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service329 IH 20
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136 FIRE
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 153
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland 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
Dothan3.5 miles8
Scranton3.7 miles9
Nimrod5.1 miles9
Cisco5.3 miles13
Pleasant Hill7.5 miles13
Romney9.0 miles13
Mountain Top10.0 miles13
Mangum10.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378690. 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.