Seale, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 76687. The Survey maps it on the Round Prairie quadrangle.

Seale within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Round Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Seale between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,330 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	NEYLAND
6 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SEALE FIELD
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ALBERT
25 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUEN
21 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	937 LIMESTONE CO
30 August 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LCR 740
24 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JARVIS
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KOSSE MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Oletha	3.8 miles	7
Old Union	7.0 miles	7
New Hope	8.3 miles	7
Davis Prairie	11.0 miles	6
Farrar	11.0 miles	7
Box Church	12.3 miles	7
Fair Oaks	12.5 miles	7
Thornton	12.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380916. 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.