BlockSauney Stand, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Washington-Chappell Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77426. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
93 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Sauney Stand between 2009 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 2 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EVA RD. FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BELLVILLE/ JASEK |
| 8 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chappell Hill | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Daniels | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Phillipsburg | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Earlywine | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Whitman | 10.2 miles | 8 | |
| Brown College | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Goodwill | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Brenham | 10.6 miles | 10 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122562675 | The 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 1346724. 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.