Sandow, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Thorndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76577. The Survey maps it on the Alcoa Lake quadrangle.

Sandow within Milam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Alcoa Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Sandow between 2005 and 2019, burning about 806 acres in total. None 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 burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
4 August 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE SIDE OF ROAD FM112
3 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCKDALE HAY BALE/GRASS FIRE
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TANGLEWOOD (LEE) FIRE
18 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAY FIRE CR 448
13 August 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE CR 450
12 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE CR 456
9 July 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	POWER LINE DOWN CR 448

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam 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 Sandow: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	(Facility) Rockdale Aluminum Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant	1952

Every working recorded in Milam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Alcoa	0.3 miles	14
Pleasant Hill	2.4 miles	14
Salty	3.8 miles	14
Forest Grove	4.1 miles	8
Marjorie	4.6 miles	15
Handy	5.0 miles	15
Conoley	5.2 miles	14
Praesel	5.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380494. 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.