BlockOld Burk Place, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mertzon North census division. It lies near South Liveoak Draw. The Survey maps it on the Bradford Draw quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1921 USGS Ketchum Mountain quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Ketchum Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bradford Draw quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Big Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Old Burk Place between 2002 and 2008, burning about 1,874 acres in total. 1 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 use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 783 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MALLARD PASTURE |
| 13 February 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 December 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 Q122552752 | 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 1380292. 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.