BlockRound Timber, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Seymour Rural census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76380. It stands on Wagon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westover quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Westover quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Round Timber between 2011 and 2019, burning about 471 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTOVER |
| 26 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEITH RES |
| 10 July 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTOVER GRASS FIRE |
| 23 June 2019 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REEVES FARM GRASS FIRE |
| 17 March 2018 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROUNSVILLE |
| 5 February 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 400 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DEAN MYERS FARM |
| 22 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E OF D. MYERS |
| 29 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS HALL RD |
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 Round Timber | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q112980128 | 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 1380464. 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.