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Texroy, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Borger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79080. The Survey maps it on the Phillips quadrangle.

Texroy within Hutchinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

122 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Texroy between 2003 and 2020, burning about 528,294 acres in total. 7 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural7
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CAMP FIRE
27 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAMC WELDING
22 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH COUNTY BARN
22 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDARIS FIRE
21 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURNNETT 2 FIRE
20 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUDDY ROAD
19 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRACELAND EAST
19 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Texroy: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Killough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Creek Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hutchinson 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
Phillips5.3 miles8
Borger5.8 miles8
Electric City8.1 miles8
Bunavista8.1 miles8
Philrich8.6 miles8
Stekoll Camp10.8 miles6
Plemons11.5 miles8
Dial12.3 miles6

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.

Wikidata item Q122549008The 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 1380652. 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.