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Saint Francis, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79108. The Survey maps it on the Sevenmile Basin quadrangle. It stands 3,527 feet above sea level.

Saint Francis within Potter 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

83 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Saint Francis between 2004 and 2020, burning about 6,328 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOTTER 6 DITCH FIRE
3 August 2018Natural150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALABATES
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGERE
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-9743
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOSE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTA
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVID
22 July 2006Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Francis: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Amarillo Copper RefineryCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant

Every working recorded in Potter 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
Folsom4.7 miles8
Mayer6.1 miles8
Pullman6.3 miles8
Dumas Junction10.1 miles8
Juilliard10.6 miles11
Pleasant Valley11.0 miles11
Amarillo11.4 miles8
Gluck12.4 miles11

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 Saint FrancisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076586The 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 1380477. 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.