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Red Mud, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Spur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79370. The Survey maps it on the Spur NW quadrangle.

Red Mud within Dickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Red Mud between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,180 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/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCARTHER
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREB MUD CEMETERY
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE RIVER
10 August 2016Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD SUITES PLACE
16 July 2016Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN PASTURE
8 May 2014Natural250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULTIPLE
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined577 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE RIVER
5 March 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREGORY

Every fire recorded in Dickens 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
Dockum8.2 miles6
Spur8.3 miles6
Soldiers Mound (historical)11.1 miles8
Steele Hill11.3 miles6
Gilpin15.0 miles6
Dickens16.0 miles8
Elton20.9 miles8
McAdoo21.2 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122553188The 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 1380423. 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.