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Panhandle, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75560. It stands on Douglasville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Douglassville quadrangle.

Panhandle within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

156 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Panhandle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 918 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 were 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6295
6 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 633
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6162
29 September 2017Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAD WRIGHT
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROD ROWE
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL WALLIAMS
23 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Overcup Landing1.6 miles10
Douglassville2.1 miles10
Poorboy Landing2.3 miles10
Armstrong Landing3.6 miles10
Midway4.8 miles10
Knights Bluff Landing5.0 miles10
Gum Springs5.0 miles10
Antioch5.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378829. 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.