BlockSixteen Corner Windmill, 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. It lies in ZIP code area 79714. The Survey maps it on the Five Wells Ranch SE quadrangle.
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 Five Wells Ranch SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Andrews quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sixteen Corner Windmill between 2006 and 2017, burning about 67,238 acres in total. 3 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010284 |
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011447 |
| 5 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2016195 |
| 10 June 2009 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2009139 |
| 26 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 160 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2006 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waldon Place Windmill | 11.2 miles | 5 | |
| McKinney Acres | 15.5 miles | 5 | |
| Andrews | 16.1 miles | 5 | |
| Florey | 18.7 miles | 5 | |
| Old Place Windmills | 20.3 miles | 5 | |
| Shafter Lake (historical) | 22.1 miles | 5 | |
| Frankel City | 28.1 miles | 5 | |
| Coyote Corner | 31.1 miles | 5 |
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 Q122554065 | 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 1379083. 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.