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Shawville, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bronte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76933. It stands on Kickapoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawville quadrangle.

Shawville within Coke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Shawville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINTERS HWY
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2662/US277
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 277. S.
26 August 2006Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2010Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON SH 158 AT COKE/RUNNELS COUNTY LINE
18 June 2020Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRONTE(SANCO PLANT)
18 June 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRONTE, SANDUSKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coke 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
Bronte2.6 miles15
Tennyson7.5 miles15
Robert Lee10.2 miles14
Fort Chadbourne10.4 miles13
Pecan Mott13.1 miles15
Sanco16.1 miles9
Edith16.9 miles8
Silver25.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379066. 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.