BlockRita, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Cooks Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77836. It stands on Damn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mumford quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Mumford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Rita between 2002 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. None 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMITH HAY FIRE FM1362N |
| 26 September 2002 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 42 |
| 28 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8282018 |
| 28 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 82820182 |
| 28 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 20 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR339 GRASS FIRE |
| 19 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8192019 |
| 14 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8142018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Rita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q115803600 | 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 1380441. 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.