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Shankleville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Burkeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75932. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shankleville quadrangle.

Shankleville within Newton County

On record in Shankleville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Shankleville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,078 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 111 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
Arson/incendiarism111
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Wiergate2.0 miles9
Burkeville2.9 miles9
Liberty3.3 miles9
Simmonsville4.0 miles9
Mattox4.1 miles9
Indian Hills5.1 miles9
Farrsville5.4 miles9
Quicksand6.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380524. 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.