Ridge, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77856. It stands on Shesky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Marquez quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Ridge within Robertson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1925 USGS Marquez No. 1 quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Marquez quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1930 USGS Marquez quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Marquez quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Ridge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 429 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
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	COOLEY
27 September 2012	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HOXIE CHAPEL
16 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMP COOLEY
17 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TFS 17-0000096
14 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMP COOLEY
16 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROLKE RANCH GRASS FIRE
15 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EASTERLY
8 May 2011	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HW 3 @ 433

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Easterly

Every fire recorded in Robertson 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
Easterly	4.3 miles	10
Bald Prairie	8.0 miles	10
New Baden	8.6 miles	10
Round Prairie	10.6 miles	8
Willow Creek	11.5 miles	7
Owensville	11.6 miles	7
Petteway	11.8 miles	7
Seale	11.9 miles	8

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 Ridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7332664	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 1366443. 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.