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Sandy Acres, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Midland South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79706. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Midland quadrangle.

Sandy Acres within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

96 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Acres between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceACTION WS FIRE
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINA FIRE
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCR1185ECR140
10 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceL.M. CONNER
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOVE FIRE
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service805ECR133
17 August 2014Natural7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRR 33 AND HILGER
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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
Ridgeheights0.8 miles9
Cotton Flat1.8 miles9
Midland3.1 miles9
Bounce4.4 miles8
Chub5.8 miles6
Warfield7.8 miles8
Corner Windmill9.1 miles8
Germania10.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1346574. 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.