Tenmile, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Tenmile quadrangle.

Tenmile within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Tenmile quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tenmile between 2006 and 2017, burning about 62 acres in total. None 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	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOVE FIRE
16 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fivemile	2.7 miles	8
Klondike	3.5 miles	8
Sparenberg	4.1 miles	8
Patricia	6.3 miles	6
Friendship	6.6 miles	6
Los Ybanez	8.4 miles	8
Midway	9.2 miles	8
Union	9.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379148. 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.