Pear Valley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Melvin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76852. The Survey maps it on the Lohn quadrangle.

Pear Valley within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1928 USGS Waldrip quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1973 USGS Lohn quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pear Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 930 acres in total. 3 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 August 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROGERS
6 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIDER
5 July 2013	Debris and open burning	83 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KUBACHEK FIRE
4 July 2006	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SALT GAP/504
23 July 2010	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 356

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pear Valley: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Central Texas Iron Ore Resource	Iron	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in McCulloch 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
Lohn	4.5 miles	13
Salt Gap	5.6 miles	14
Fife	8.0 miles	14
Doole	8.1 miles	14
West Sweden	8.6 miles	12
Melvin	9.1 miles	12
Waldrip	9.9 miles	14
Homer Junction	10.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380334. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.