BlockPrairie Point, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. It stands on Bingham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood 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 Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Point between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSSTON HAY BALES |
| 20 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STUMP BURN |
| 19 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM RD |
| 14 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOUBLE O RANCH CONTROL BURN |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MERRITT ROAD FIRE |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROUND PRARIE FIRE |
| 4 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRAILER AXLE GRASSFIRE |
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.
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 Prairie Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q127604121 | The 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 1382568. 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.