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Moore, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. The Survey maps it on the Kurten quadrangle.

Moore within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

53 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Moore between 1998 and 2019, burning about 539 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8282 E SH 21
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004352 HWY 21 FIRE
4 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005139 DICK ELLIOTT GRASS FIRE
24 August 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7353 DICK ELLIOTT RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Wixon Valley0.9 miles7
Tabor2.7 miles7
Kurten3.7 miles7
Cottonwood4.0 miles7
Reliance5.2 miles10
Steep Hollow5.6 miles11
Union6.5 miles7
Boonville6.9 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 MooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115152699The 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 1380208. 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.