BlockOld Place Windmills, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Andrews South census division. The Survey maps it on the Clabber Hill Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Clabber Hill Ranch quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
56 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Old Place Windmills between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,553 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Natural | 17 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH KOCH FIRE |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011525 |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011524 |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010220 |
| 7 August 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010244 |
| 2 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McKinney Acres | 8.8 miles | 5 | |
| Andrews | 10.0 miles | 5 | |
| Coyote Corner | 11.1 miles | 5 | |
| Waldon Place Windmill | 11.8 miles | 5 | |
| Shafter Lake (historical) | 17.4 miles | 5 | |
| Florey | 19.5 miles | 5 | |
| Frankel City | 19.6 miles | 5 | |
| Sixteen Corner Windmill | 20.3 miles | 5 |
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 Q122590633 | 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 1378799. 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.