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Rockwell Place, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79015. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Stadium quadrangle.

Rockwell Place within Randall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

284 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Rockwell Place between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,471 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined144
Debris and open burning58
Equipment and vehicle use51
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1023
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use42 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWASHINGTON
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service11-748
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-27 AND MCCORMICK
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI27
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCORMICK
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1184
21 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-725

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randall 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
Canyon4.4 miles9
Timbercreek Canyon4.9 miles8
Palisades5.8 miles8
Lake Tanglewood6.7 miles8
Zita6.7 miles8
Cleta8.2 miles9
Umbarger12.1 miles10
Ogg14.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805837. 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.