BlockMount Gainor, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dripping Springs-Wimberley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78620. It stands on Cardium Creek. The Survey maps it on the Henly quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1887 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Blanco quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Henly quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Pedernales River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
67 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Mount Gainor between 2005 and 2018, burning about 484 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUNSON LANE |
| 5 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MT. GAINOR |
| 30 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 180001917 |
| 23 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 180001896 |
| 13 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MT. GAINOR |
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 Q122573485 | 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 1378706. 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.