Scotts Corner, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rotan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79546. The Survey maps it on the Hobbs quadrangle.

Scotts Corner within Fisher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1932 USGS Camp Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Snyder quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Scotts Corner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,315 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	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
6 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD HOBBS GIN
25 July 2007	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 June 2020	Natural	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STORMS
11 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOWERS
29 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LARRY LANDES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fisher 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 Scotts Corner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Strontium. 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
	Martin Mine	Strontium	Past Producer	Celestite

Every working recorded in Fisher 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
Hobbs	1.9 miles	10
Cross Roads	4.9 miles	10
Sardis	6.6 miles	15
Rotan	7.7 miles	15
Center	9.6 miles	12
Fisher	11.2 miles	15
North Roby	11.3 miles	15
Roby	12.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379042. 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.