Ridgecrest, Texas

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.

• 1932 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Toomey quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Toomey quadrangle1:31680
• 1955 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Echo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Orange quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Echo quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ridgecrest between 1995 and 2016, burning about 594 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Little Cypress
• Kinard Estates
• Coughlin
• Peveto
• Reese
• Gratis

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ridgecrest: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Orange County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1345200. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.