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Peggy, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Campbellton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78008. The Survey maps it on the Peggy quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Peggy within Atascosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Peggy between 2006 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceENERGY
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR204 HAY FIRE
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART GRASS FIRE
21 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 99 TANK FIRE
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOE BISHOP
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFASHING GAS PLANT-1
18 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1099 GRASS FIRE
7 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOM RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atascosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Peggy: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Uranium, Sulfur, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Conoco Hurt PitUranium, SulfurProducer
Essespoonomore PitUraniumPast Producer
Fashing Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Lone Star Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Atascosa 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
Fashing4.2 miles11
Campbellton6.6 miles11
McCoy12.2 miles10
Leal15.4 miles8
Christine17.2 miles9
Coughran18.8 miles9
Black Hill19.2 miles8
Pleasanton22.3 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on PeggyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7160614The 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 1380341. 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.