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Moselle, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76134. The Survey maps it on the Fort Worth quadrangle.

Moselle within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

300 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Moselle between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,013 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined253
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELCH
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCIRCLE DR
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCART
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceW BOLT
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHWEST LOOP
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESSEX
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK GROVE
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Lytle1.4 miles16
Edgecliff Village2.0 miles16
Everman3.4 miles16
Crowley3.5 miles14
Garden Acres3.6 miles14
Primrose4.4 miles12
Oak Grove4.7 miles14
Belt Junction4.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378702. 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.