Sturdivant, Texas

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.

• 1891 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1918 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000
• 1927 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Mineral Wells East quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of Sturdivant between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,855 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mineral Wells
• Wolters Village
• Brazos

Every fire recorded in Palo Pinto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sturdivant: 10 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Palo Pinto County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379127. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.