Shamrock Shores, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bangs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76801. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Brownwood quadrangle.

Shamrock Shores within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1887 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1889 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1924 USGS Brownwood Reservoir Site quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Grosvenor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1969 USGS Lake Brownwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

313 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Shamrock Shores between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,428 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	91
Equipment and vehicle use	77
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18
Smoking	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	3

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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OAK 7407
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 563 7400
3 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2125 7417
27 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRLAND (4141)
25 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 279
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BELFAST (3140)
21 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 574 (4135)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Lake Shore	0.8 miles	17
Thrifty	1.9 miles	15
Fry	4.5 miles	15
Lake Brownwood	5.0 miles	17
Grosvenor	5.1 miles	15
Blackwell Crossing	5.6 miles	15
Byrds	7.1 miles	17
Bangs	7.3 miles	14

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 Q122592464

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 1346968. 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.