Neely Ward, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Morton census division. The Survey maps it on the Maple quadrangle.

Neely Ward within Cochran County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Maple quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Neely Ward between 2006 and 2012, burning about 2,015 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 burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 April 2012	Debris and open burning	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011023
2 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochran 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Star Route (historical)	2.0 miles	7
Famuliner	5.6 miles	7
Griffith	6.2 miles	5
Morton	7.9 miles	7
Lehman	10.8 miles	7
Bledsoe	11.4 miles	5
Whiteface	18.7 miles	7
Girlstown USA	24.0 miles	8

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 Q122553213

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 2034863. 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.