BlockShafter Lake, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Andrews North census division. The Survey maps it on the Shafter Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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
- 1971 USGS Shafter Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
34 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Shafter Lake (historical) between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRAHANEY FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011481 |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011520 |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011522 |
| 2 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 69 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NW 5001 FIRE |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011501 |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011475 |
| 26 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florey | 5.2 miles | 5 | |
| Frankel City | 6.3 miles | 5 | |
| Andrews | 8.7 miles | 5 | |
| McKinney Acres | 10.1 miles | 5 | |
| Waldon Place Windmill | 12.1 miles | 5 | |
| Old Place Windmills | 17.4 miles | 5 | |
| Coyote Corner | 20.8 miles | 5 | |
| Sixteen Corner Windmill | 22.1 miles | 5 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034791. 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.