BlockScharbauer City, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79758. The Survey maps it on the Gardendale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Gardendale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Scharbauer City between 2007 and 2017, burning about 1,852 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 117 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FASKIN FIRE |
| 11 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011492 |
| 5 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010148 |
| 2 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEATHERFORD FIRE |
| 21 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011282 |
| 27 April 2008 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GOLDSMITH FIRE |
| 10 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH GOLDSMITH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardendale | 2.7 miles | 6 | |
| North Cowden | 4.6 miles | 6 | |
| Goldsmith | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Odessa | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| West Odessa | 13.0 miles | 10 | |
| Turnbaugh Corner | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Arcade | 15.3 miles | 10 | |
| Notrees | 18.7 miles | 7 |
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 Q122565233 | 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 1346756. 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.