BlockStowers Corner Windmill, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ingram census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78024. The Survey maps it on the Boneyard Draw quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Llano quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Llano quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Boneyard Draw quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Kerrville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Stowers Corner Windmill between 2006 and 2018, burning about 4,598 acres in total. 5 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUCY' FIRE |
| 1 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 370 FALLOW RUN |
| 20 August 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STOWERS RANCH FIRE#2 |
| 24 July 2006 | Natural | 380 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MO RANCH FIREWORKS |
| 8 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1468 FM1340 BRUSH FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Waltonia | 11.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mountain Home | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Ingram | 14.3 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Wesley | 18.5 miles | 13 | |
| Kerrville | 19.3 miles | 13 | |
| Junction Windmill | 19.7 miles | 8 | |
| Legion | 20.5 miles | 12 |
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 Q122545497 | 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 1379121. 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.