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Sivells Bend, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Callisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76240. The Survey maps it on the Thackerville quadrangle.

Sivells Bend within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

58 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Sivells Bend between 2006 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON NORTHRIDGE
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON FM 1201
15 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service437 FM 1201
8 August 2013Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON CR 402
6 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON NORTHSHORE
6 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON CR 403
2 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON CR 406

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sivells Bend: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cooke 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
Marysville8.0 miles13
Walnut Bend9.8 miles13
Coesfield10.4 miles13
Bulcher11.4 miles12
Dexter14.0 miles13
Sturgeon14.6 miles13
Custer City14.8 miles13
Lindsay14.8 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Sivells BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7532457The 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 1380547. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.