Red Ranger, 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 76569. It stands on Little Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Red Ranger 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Red Ranger between 2005 and 2020, burning about 280 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	170 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TWEETY
4 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	RED RANGER
4 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
17 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HUNT HILL WEST
10 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11742 FM 437
30 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 53 FIRE
31 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LEAF MAREK

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
Leedale	1.7 miles	14
Cyclone	2.1 miles	14
Zabcikville	2.8 miles	14
New Colony	3.2 miles	14
Stringtown	3.4 miles	14
Meeks	3.5 miles	14
Seaton	4.0 miles	14
Edgeworth	4.3 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 Red Ranger	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331284	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 1380424. 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.