BlockPrairie Mountain, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Llano South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78643. It stands on Prairie Mountain. The Survey maps it on the House Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 15 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.
- 1887 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1918 USGS Llano quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS House Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Llano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Mountain between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,378 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2323 #1 |
| 13 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 91 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BATEMAN |
| 12 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2323#2 |
| 8 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,700 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STONELEDGE |
| 7 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 111 MOPUP |
| 21 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 68 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ABLE |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford | 9.8 miles | 16 | |
| Castell | 10.5 miles | 16 | |
| Scotts Crossing | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Click | 16.2 miles | 15 | |
| Llano | 17.5 miles | 17 | |
| Gainesville | 20.6 miles | 15 | |
| Valley Spring | 20.9 miles | 18 | |
| Stolz | 22.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380391. 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.