BlockOlfen, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rowena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76875. The Survey maps it on the Paint Rock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Ballinger quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1932 USGS Paint Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Paint Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Olfen between 2005 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HALFMAN FIRE |
| 25 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1929 |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRERY |
| 14 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 83 FIRE |
| 28 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDE FIRE |
| 22 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BIGBY |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380306. 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.