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O'Farrell, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 75551. It stands on Prairie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle.

O'Farrell within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of O'Farrell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 944 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 20 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 burning135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 381
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6162
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 248
25 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES RUSSLE
23 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORNON FINLAYON
21 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6210

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of O'Farrell: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concord SchoolIronOccurrence
Siderite MineIronProducerLimonite, Siderite
Surratt DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Red Hill2.7 miles11
Gum Springs2.7 miles10
Midway3.1 miles10
Roach4.6 miles11
New Liberty4.7 miles10
Douglassville5.0 miles10
Warren Springs5.2 miles10
New Colony5.4 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 O'FarrellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122561190The 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 1378775. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.