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Pecan Plantation, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76049. The Survey maps it on the Nemo quadrangle.

Pecan Plantation within Hood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

62 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Plantation between 2003 and 2018, burning about 696 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3900 RHEA CT.
25 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRUBE COURT
14 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELL BEND FIRE
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRILEY RD 2 FIRE
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOMANCHE VISTA
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY BEACH
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANYON RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood 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
El Tesoro2.5 miles21
Fall Creek2.7 miles21
Mambrino3.4 miles19
Fort Spunky3.4 miles19
DeCordova4.4 miles21
Neri5.0 miles18
Acton5.6 miles21
Brushy7.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034688. 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.