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Pullman, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79111. The Survey maps it on the Pullman quadrangle. It stands 3,602 feet above sea level.

Pullman within Potter 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

129 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Pullman between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13505
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13519
24 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-13386
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-12214
9 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-9581
7 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-10619
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-10523
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter 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
Folsom2.7 miles8
Mayer4.8 miles8
Dumas Junction5.2 miles8
Saint Francis6.3 miles8
Amarillo6.8 miles8
Pleasant Valley7.9 miles11
Juilliard10.1 miles11
Soncy12.5 miles8

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 PullmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076564The 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 1365855. 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.