Primrose, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76123. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Primrose quadrangle.

Primrose within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Primrose quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

105 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Primrose between 2005 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	86
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALTAMESA
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WELCH
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	W LOOP 820 S
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WESSEX
12 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALTAMESA
1 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SW LOOP 820
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEDDINGTON
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	W CLEBURNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Francis Village	1.2 miles	12
Lake Shore Estates	3.0 miles	15
Plover	3.1 miles	12
Crowley	4.4 miles	14
Moselle	4.4 miles	16
Benbrook	4.5 miles	15
Boss	5.5 miles	17
Wheatland	5.6 miles	17

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 Primrose	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q126362404	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 1378909. 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.