BlockOld Place Windmill, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79734. It lies near Little Aguja Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Toyahvale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Toyahvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1973 USGS Fort Stockton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fort Davis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Old Place Windmill between 2010 and 2017, burning about 3,540 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCOY AIRSTRIP FIRE |
| 24 April 2012 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCOY2 FIRE |
| 18 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 17 GRASS FIRE |
| 14 April 2010 | Natural | 3,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ORPHAN HILL |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Windmill | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Saltlick Mill | 15.9 miles | 12 | |
| Fort Davis | 22.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bell Place Windmill | 39.9 miles | 15 | |
| Valentine | 41.4 miles | 15 | |
| Chispa | 47.0 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.
| Wikidata item Q122552421 | 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 1380302. 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.