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Prospect, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lake O' the Pines census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75657. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle.

Prospect within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Prospect between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,337 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3

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
9 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6179
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6174
7 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 379
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUNE JUNKO
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 343
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 182
5 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prospect: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hagerty DepositIronOccurrenceGoethite, Hematite
Lindon No. 1-BIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prospect in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindProspect$5,000Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 1994HailProspect-Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Hall2.5 miles12
White Oak3.1 miles13
Berea3.1 miles13
Burford3.9 miles13
Payne4.2 miles12
Kellyville4.9 miles13
Lodi5.2 miles11
Sarber5.4 miles13

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 Q127705243The 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 1378911. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.