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Prospect, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellevue-Joy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76228. The Survey maps it on the Postoak quadrangle.

Prospect within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

73 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Prospect between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,838 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 148 AND FM 174 GRASS FIRE
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURNS 148
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWELL SCOTT AND DARK HOLLOW
5 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEARS MAYFIELD
27 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service480 RHAT ROAD
23 August 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service148 & PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD
19 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2018Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAMBROSE JONES ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Shannon3.6 miles9
Buffalo Springs5.8 miles7
Joy6.6 miles7
Newport9.3 miles7
Vashti9.4 miles7
Deer Creek11.8 miles8
Bluegrove13.3 miles7
Bellevue14.2 miles7

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 ProspectAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127705244The 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 1380400. 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.