BlockRound House, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kerens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75144. It stands on Gas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodlow Park quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Goodlow Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
108 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Round House (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1012283 |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 100 |
| 4 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1012237 |
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3029 |
| 27 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1113191 WILDFIRE |
| 22 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-0930 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Prairie | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Rural Shade | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Goodnight | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Samaria | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Goodlow Park | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Eureka | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Kerens | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Elm Flat | 8.9 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034797. 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.