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Retta, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76028. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Retta within Tarrant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

117 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Retta between 2005 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMANSFIELD FIRE
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMITCHELL
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEWT PATTERSON
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEWT PATTERSON
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOREST ACRE
3 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Rendon1.7 miles16
Valley Ridge2.4 miles16
Oak Grove3.6 miles14
Garden Acres4.6 miles14
Bisbee4.8 miles16
Mansfield5.0 miles16
Everman6.1 miles16
Kennedale6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378951. 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.