Slater, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Evant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Patterson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pidcoke quadrangle.

Slater within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1894 USGS Gatesville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Pidcoke quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Purmela quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Pidcoke quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Purmela quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Pidcoke quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Slater between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,462 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CC
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	65
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CC
4 September 2011	Smoking	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BROOKE RANCH FIRE
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CC
27 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	5010 CR 139
22 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6460 FM 1783
21 September 2014	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1115 CR 139

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell 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
King	3.8 miles	17
Pearl	5.8 miles	12
Pidcoke	6.2 miles	16
Bee House	7.2 miles	12
Arnett	8.2 miles	17
Antelope Crossing	8.4 miles	15
Topsey	8.6 miles	15
South Purmela	8.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380555. 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.