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Tesco, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79561. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Peak quadrangle.

Tesco within Nolan 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

66 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Tesco between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,725 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined255 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILKS
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,808 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLUE ALLEGHENY FIRE
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOYD FIRE
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePLATEU
16 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRENT MEZA FIRE
15 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISHER 121
12 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use70 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTER FIRE
7 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 131

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan 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
Herndon1.8 miles14
Grimes4.2 miles14
Toland5.8 miles14
Orient8.7 miles12
Sweetwater8.8 miles13
Avenger Village11.5 miles13
Shaufler12.1 miles13
Nolan15.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379152. 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.