Patillo, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Morgan Mill-Bluff Dale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76462. The Survey maps it on the Santo quadrangle.

Patillo within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

1891 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1918 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000
1931 USGS Santo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Lipan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1984 USGS Santo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

172 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Patillo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,292 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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 burning	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 128 GRASS FIRE
7 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 143 FIRE
27 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM1188 AT CR 139
27 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE FM 1188
21 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE 17-231
21 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	S HWY 281 GRASS FIRE 16-203
15 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAVIS RD. GRASS FIRE
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE FM 1189

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath 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
Sapoak	5.3 miles	12
Morgan Mill	7.9 miles	12
Hannibal	12.5 miles	13
Huckabay	12.9 miles	13
Bluff Dale	13.1 miles	14
Thurber	13.2 miles	16
Knob Hill	16.9 miles	14
Stephenville	19.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380898. 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.