Ratibor, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76501. It stands on Ratibor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Ratibor within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Seaton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ratibor between 2005 and 2017, burning about 52 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KETTERMAN
28 April 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOST PRARIE
7 March 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TERRELL
17 February 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 December 2010	Smoking	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 53 & CRICKET LANE
31 December 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2904 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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
Seaton	2.1 miles	14
Airville	2.7 miles	14
Oenaville	2.9 miles	12
Oscar	3.7 miles	15
Zabcikville	3.8 miles	14
Ocker	3.8 miles	14
Stringtown	4.6 miles	14
Cyclone	5.3 miles	14

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 Ratibor	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54871508	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 1380413. 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.