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Reliance, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77808. The Survey maps it on the Reliance quadrangle.

Reliance within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

84 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Reliance between 2005 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004997 GRASSBUR BRUSH FIRE
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0004959 KURTEN HAY FIRE
3 September 2012Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0004476 RILEY ROAD GRASS FIRE
20 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVF090001237
15 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-0005728 DEMOCRAT ROAD FIRE
11 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos 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
Kurten3.3 miles7
Channey Crossing4.1 miles10
Steep Hollow4.3 miles11
Wixon Valley4.4 miles7
Moore5.2 miles7
Democrat Crossing5.8 miles10
Harvey6.4 miles11
Boonville6.8 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 RelianceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115516871The 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 1380433. 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.