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Summers Mill, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76513. It stands on Moon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Holland quadrangle.

Summers Mill within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

74 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Summers Mill between 2002 and 2019, burning about 1,107 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHARPING LN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTAG ROAD FIRE 2011
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1220 ELMER KING RD
22 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 41
21 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6942 CAMPBELL HILL ROAD
15 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1325 ROSE LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Summers Mill: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belton Sand and Gravel Lampasas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bell 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
Childers Mill (historical)2.0 miles14
Little River3.7 miles15
Little River-Academy4.0 miles15
Sparks4.8 miles15
Academy4.8 miles15
Hobbs5.7 miles16
Salado5.9 miles14
Belton6.2 miles16

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 Summers MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113349567The 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 1380571. 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.