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Punkin Center, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76087. It stands on Underwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake Weatherford quadrangle.

Punkin Center within Parker County

On record in Punkin Center

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

107 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Punkin Center between 2005 and 2019, burning about 408 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning16
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER PATH
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH LAKE
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service982 JOHNSON BEND
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service396 MM E I 20
13 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 DORRIS COURT
6 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceG&L
24 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTACKETT CT
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service180 ANNETTA ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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
Center Point1.1 miles17
Hudson Oaks1.2 miles16
Wampler1.5 miles16
Earls1.6 miles17
Weatherford3.6 miles17
Annetta North3.9 miles17
Dicey3.9 miles16
Willow Park4.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1344632. 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.