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Mountain Top, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rising Star census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76471. The Survey maps it on the Union Center quadrangle.

Mountain Top within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

33 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Top between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,174 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCACTUS JULE
28 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLIFE RIVER
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined174 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIDAL WAVE
12 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIMPSON II FIRE
11 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIMPSON
5 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 207
13 April 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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
Romney1.1 miles13
Pleasant Hill3.0 miles13
Union Center3.9 miles13
Branton4.1 miles13
Nimrod6.2 miles9
Okra6.9 miles13
Carbon7.1 miles12
Sabanno8.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034990. 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.