Ocker, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76501. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Ocker within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Seaton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ocker between 2005 and 2017, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015-122
4 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RED RANGER
4 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KETTERMAN
30 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 53 FIRE
22 June 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HERING JFIRE
28 April 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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
Airville	1.1 miles	14
Zabcikville	2.1 miles	14
Cyclone	3.0 miles	14
Ratibor	3.8 miles	14
Seaton	3.9 miles	14
Red Ranger	4.8 miles	14
Meeks	5.6 miles	14
Oenaville	6.0 miles	12

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 Ocker	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114397367	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 1380283. 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.