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Scofield, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Old River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77879. It stands on Davidson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gay Hill quadrangle.

Scofield within Burleson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

123 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Scofield between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,545 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9/7/2011
6 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9/6/2011
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 105
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 420 STRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCYE WOODS JR.
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9/27/2012
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1691 CR 278

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scofield in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Flash FloodScofield-FM 1361 was impassable due to floodwaters. 6 to 8 inches of water covering the road was observed by local emergency managers.

Every storm recorded in Burleson 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
Somerville4.7 miles10
Clay5.7 miles10
Merle6.7 miles9
Lyons6.9 miles8
Center Line7.1 miles8
Wilcox7.1 miles9
Big Creek8.3 miles10
Beaver Creek9.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379039. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.