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Stubbs, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Grays Prairie quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Stubbs within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

206 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Stubbs between 1996 and 2015, burning about 1,984 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-409
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-404
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-396
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-398
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution440 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-391
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAIRY QUEEN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-388

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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
Lively1.9 miles10
Tolosa3.6 miles12
Styx3.8 miles9
Kemp3.9 miles13
Peeltown5.0 miles9
Grays Prairie5.5 miles10
Cottonwood6.7 miles9
Becker7.2 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 StubbsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21791445The 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 1379126. 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.