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Sandoval, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76574. The Survey maps it on the Granger Lake quadrangle.

Sandoval within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

51 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Sandoval between 2006 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE FIRE W HWY 79
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL ON GRASS FIRE
31 August 2015Smoking10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL AND GRANGER
30 August 2015Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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
Hare2.3 miles14
Hoxie3.1 miles14
Thrall3.4 miles14
Elm Grove3.5 miles14
Laneport3.5 miles14
Wuthrich Hill3.8 miles14
Waterloo5.2 miles15
Friendship5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380493. 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.