BlockSouth Brice, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79239. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brice quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Brice quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS Brice NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brice quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of South Brice between 2006 and 2019, burning about 522 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 7 |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRICE 256 & 70 |
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THORNBERRY |
| 9 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1036 |
| 4 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAR/GRASS FIRE |
| 4 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CORD 6 BRICE |
| 27 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2019 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122551942 | 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 1368642. 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.