BlockPlainview, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sanger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76249. The Survey maps it on the Era SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Era SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
69 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 2005 and 2017, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JANUARY LANE FIRE |
| 1 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVIDSON AND BERNARD |
| 5 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 802 E. MCCART |
| 21 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8351 FM 1173 |
| 20 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380370. 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.