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Saint Johns Colony, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78616. The Survey maps it on the Dale quadrangle.

Saint Johns Colony within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

318 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns Colony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,985 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning189
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service103 DALE RANCH ROAD
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service650 CALDER RD
6 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined130 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 114
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2009-75
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETTYTOWN FIRE
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service309 OLD COLONY LINE ROAD
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8810 TAYLORSVILLE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell 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
Dale3.0 miles15
Lytton Springs3.7 miles17
Taylorsville6.1 miles11
Elm Grove6.7 miles11
Pettytown6.8 miles11
Mendoza7.2 miles18
Lockhart8.4 miles15
McMahan8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1345954. 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.