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Pakan, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Shamrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79079. The Survey maps it on the Pakan quadrangle.

Pakan within Wheeler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Pakan between 2006 and 2019, burning about 4,534 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAKAN RD
17 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service672019
11 May 2018Natural160 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAKAN RD FIRE
3 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHIPLEY
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAKEN FIRE
15 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Magic City5.8 miles6
Lela6.1 miles6
Ramsdell6.4 miles5
Kellerville7.1 miles5
Bellco7.8 miles6
Twitty10.5 miles6
Shamrock10.8 miles6
Wheeler14.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1364707. 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.