Parks Corner Windmill, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dilley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78017. The Survey maps it on the Divot quadrangle.

Parks Corner Windmill within Frio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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.

1942 USGS Divot quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Divot quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Divot quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Parks Corner Windmill between 2005 and 2018, burning about 939 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 117 15 MILES WEST OF IH35
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 4728 @ CR 4700
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 117 @ FM 1581
2 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 4538 @ CR 4629
18 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1581 @ FM 117
11 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 117 15 MI. WEST OF IH 35
4 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 117 @ CR 4520

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Divot

Every fire recorded in Frio 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Divot	3.0 miles	9
Hilltop	8.7 miles	9
Hilltop Colonia	8.7 miles	9
Derby Colonia	9.7 miles	11
Derby	9.9 miles	11
Dilley	9.9 miles	9
Cude Crossing Windmill	10.1 miles	10
Melon	12.0 miles	10

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 Q122559494

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 1380325. 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.