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Ray Point, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Three Rivers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78071. It lies near Odom Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ray Point quadrangle. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Ray Point within Live Oak County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

93 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Ray Point between 2006 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Smoking2

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019143
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019141
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 72 GRASS FIRE
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2019140
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2009-110
17 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-127
10 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRVFD2011-117

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Live Oak County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ray Point: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, Selenium, Rhenium. 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
Kopplin MineUranium, Molybdenum, SeleniumPast ProducerStratabound
Sulfur Creek MineUranium, Molybdenum, Selenium, RheniumPast ProducerStratabound
Zamzow Mine (IEC)Uranium, Selenium, MolybdenumPast ProducerStratabound
Best Branch OccurrenceBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Sulphur Creek OccurrenceBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Felder Uranium OperationUraniumProducer
Kopplin PitUraniumPast Producer
Lamprecht MineUraniumPast ProducerStratabound
Marrs-Mclean Pit No 1UraniumPast Producer
Marrs-Mclean Pit No 2UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Live Oak 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
Oakville4.5 miles11
Karon5.2 miles11
Three Rivers6.2 miles11
Ike9.2 miles11
La Para12.4 miles9
Simmons12.6 miles12
George West12.6 miles12
Whitsett12.8 miles11

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 Ray PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7297964The 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 1380416. 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.